has anybody here read Mission Child, by Maureen F McHugh?
I'd love to hear others' perspectives.
In my opinion, she addresses a lot of tough issues unblinkingly, in a way that would be disarming even for the mainstream reader - yet without padding or glossing over anything. absolutely subversive.
Without once giving in to preaching, McHugh issues indictments (note the plural) by simply telling a woman's story, from her own evolving, unvarnished POV.
There are some things hinted at in the book (IMHO) that I'd love to see if came up for anybody else.
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Re: Mission Child
Mon, May 16, 2005 - 5:16 AMI loved Mission Child, although I read it several years ago and my memory of it is a little fuzzy. But I agree, she tackles a lot of difficult issues centered on the young woman character.
I've read a couple of her other books as well and they deal with similar issues. She's a good writer.
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Re: Mission Child
Mon, November 28, 2005 - 10:51 PMeven though i thought there was a lot of amazing stuff going on in mission child and i loved the fact that the main character was definatly trans, i thought the book was just too depressing. I think it comes down to the fact that if i'm gonna read about was and racism and refugee's, i'd rather read about current real ones, then i would have spent my time relating to the world that really needs help. Also i found her character to be a little too dumb to realte to.
