The Stars Are Legion

Hurley???s take on grimdark, as has been showcased in her other works besides this novel, has more to do with the violence and bloodiness of being a woman. On one hand, a woman can be a destroyer, as the excerpt and many other scenes throughout the story show, but she can also be a creator ??? but that process of creation means to be wracked with the pains of childbirth, and covered in its blood and muck. In other stories, pregnancy and birth are portrayed as miraculous, even magical (consider the virgin birth narrative in mythology and Christianity), but that is not the case in [this novel]...

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