I've read it! Also on melannen's recommendation, actually.
It's also hugely interesting to consider what the lamviin's trisexuality means, for society and for queerness; Smith does a decent job of teasing its repercussions out despite the book's brevity, but of course there's always more to say.
I found myself wondering about this, too. Smith made a passing reference to the 'deviance' of non-traditional relationship groupings early on, when Mav and Mymy were in the tavern, but didn't really touch on it afterwards. I would have found further exploration of the topic interesting. And I remember Mymy mentioning that one of rher fellow paracauterists had never quite gotten over being surmale instead of male, as rhe had anticpated, and it started me thinking of how gender identity works in a species that doesn't develop identifiable sexual characteristics until after puberty. So many questions!
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It's also hugely interesting to consider what the lamviin's trisexuality means, for society and for queerness; Smith does a decent job of teasing its repercussions out despite the book's brevity, but of course there's always more to say.
I found myself wondering about this, too. Smith made a passing reference to the 'deviance' of non-traditional relationship groupings early on, when Mav and Mymy were in the tavern, but didn't really touch on it afterwards. I would have found further exploration of the topic interesting. And I remember Mymy mentioning that one of rher fellow paracauterists had never quite gotten over being surmale instead of male, as rhe had anticpated, and it started me thinking of how gender identity works in a species that doesn't develop identifiable sexual characteristics until after puberty. So many questions!