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Every time I read a book by Nicola Griffith, I'm angered by the fact that I had to go looking to find her. Her books are nuanced, beautifully written, and incredibly powerful--more so than some science fiction books that were required reading in several science fiction classes that I took in college, or many oft-recommended and more popular books from the same era. But of course they're by a woman and SUPER queer, so while I'm angry that her books weren't the on the generic lists of "classics" or "must reads" that I found online, and instead were relegated to the "best science fiction by women" lists that I dug up later, once I'd realized that I had a hole in my reading history when it came to authors that shared my gender, I'm not shocked. I know how this works. Still, everything that Nicola Griffith has ever writted has hit me hard and made me think deep while also being a joy to read. Slow River is no exception. If you want a story that explores the ways that capitalism treats people like commodities no matter what their income, the ins and outs of working in a sewage treatment plant, and queer female relationships on top of all of that--and does it with beautiful, beautiful words? This is the book for you.


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Slow River A Novel Nicola Griffith Books Reviews

I am working my way through Nicola Griffith's body of work.

This is the second book she wrote.

It's sort of science fiction but just a wee bit.

I thought it was a creative story. I haven't read anything else like it. Kidnapping, science fiction, lesbian steamy bits, and sewage and water treatment. Not necessarily in that order.

It's interesting to read sci-fi when some of it's come to pass into just science.
How to review this book? For starters, it is far beyond my ken. The protagonist was brought up in riches and luxury. The protagonist is a lesbian. She is kidnapped and must adapt to a life on the lam. Being a heterosexual middle-class man, none of these things applies to me, and perhaps that's why, no matter how much I enjoyed reading the book at the time, did I find it so easy to put down and walk away. To reiterate this book is extremely interesting and well written, but for whatever reason, I found no particular urge to read "just one more chapter before I go to sleep," which is, of course, the hallmark of a great book.

The family of Lore van de Oest has made a fortune in the biotechnology of water remediation/purification. The story jumps around three time-frames young Lore growing up and not understanding the family dynamics of her parents' frosty marriage and sexual abuse; Lore living on the streets after killing a kidnapper and being helped by the tech-savvy criminal and drug addict Spanner, eventually becoming her lover; and the "present day" Lore, complete with stolen identity, trying to go straight with a drudge job in a sewage treatment plant. Of the three threads, I enjoyed the treatment plant the best - the executive politics, the speculative but plausible biotech, etc.

To me, the book is not a "lesbian" nor even a "homosexual" book. It is somewhat suspicious that everyone Lore meets is homosexual - if this is what the future holds, there will never be another child conceived naturally! Further, it is somewhat sexually graphic. But it doesn't matter - these people just happen to be lesbians, so I would reject the notion that this book should be labelled "homosexual."

There are some neat plot twists (and they never cheat - the twists are fully consistent with the story). As I said above, the biotech stuff is quite interesting, as is the envisioned future communication technology. The characters are not particularly likeable, but are interesting and fully realised and consistent. So why does it only get three stars? Honestly, I don't know. But this is a book I just didn't care enough about to tear through, so I can only give it a "good" rating, not a "great" one.
Author Nicola Griffith has amazing skill with description; a plant on a table extends a leaf and makes the reader's own room comes alive. Engrossing plot, tethered to the main character's shame (related primarily to the actions of others) and her pride in doing difficult work that's complex, essential, and honest. All is drawn for the reader with clarity and vivid urgency.
I will say this first -- once you decipher how Griffith's world works, the plot will not surprise you, and neither will the characters. They all do pretty much exactly what you expect them to, and it all happens pretty much like you would think. That said, I believe this is because of Griffith's storycrafting more than the plot's inherent tropeyness -- not a thing happens in this book that Griffith hasn't set up beforehand, and it is for this reason it is engaging. Griffith makes you want to know what will happen, and what happened in the past to cause it. She doesn't leave any loose ends, and though you feel like you've met her characters before, you are still interested in them and their journeys. Though you have a strong suspicion as to what will happen next, Griffith's writing is good enough that you keep reading to see it happen, to see how her characters react. If you're looking for an action-packed suspense novel, this isn't it; if you're looking for something weirdly psychological, oddly personal, and definitely engaging, this is the book for you.
I'm shocked that there is only one review of the most recent edition of Nicola Griffith's Slow River on . I don't know where I got the copy I read--a 1995 Del Rey Balantine edition, but given Griffith's standing in the lesbian community I would have thought Slow River would continue to garner dozens of positive reviews. I found it to be a well-written book, offering a compelling story creatively structured with alternating scenes in the present and past.

I won't go into the plot. Let me just say as a straight male reader, I recommend this for all audiences as an example of a story that will grab your attention where the fact the protagonist is a lesbian is of secondary import. In fact, the word lesbian never appears in the book.
Every time I read a book by Nicola Griffith, I'm angered by the fact that I had to go looking to find her. Her books are nuanced, beautifully written, and incredibly powerful--more so than some science fiction books that were required reading in several science fiction classes that I took in college, or many oft-recommended and more popular books from the same era. But of course they're by a woman and SUPER queer, so while I'm angry that her books weren't the on the generic lists of "classics" or "must reads" that I found online, and instead were relegated to the "best science fiction by women" lists that I dug up later, once I'd realized that I had a hole in my reading history when it came to authors that shared my gender, I'm not shocked. I know how this works. Still, everything that Nicola Griffith has ever writted has hit me hard and made me think deep while also being a joy to read. Slow River is no exception. If you want a story that explores the ways that capitalism treats people like commodities no matter what their income, the ins and outs of working in a sewage treatment plant, and queer female relationships on top of all of that--and does it with beautiful, beautiful words? This is the book for you.