The Gracekeepers

Sometimes a book grabs me and I don't exactly know why. Usually, it's the prose, or the action, or the characters, or some combination that gets me, and I can pinpoint it. With "The Gracekeepers," I can't quite put my finger on why I loved this book. It reads like a lovely non-genre novel that could make the best sellers' list, which I might have read in my younger days, but would normally bore me these days. It's sort of a magical realism/dystopia fusion that is apparently inspired by Scottish myths and fairy tales. It takes place in the future when sea levels have risen, leaving only islands rather than continents. People are either islanders or sea-farers, and they don't get along. And through a strange set of circumstances, two young women meet and find they are soulmates. This book won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror, was nominated for a Kitschie (for progressive, intelligent, and entertaining genre fiction), and was on the James Tiptree Jr. Honor List (for genre fiction that expands or explores our understanding of gender).

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