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    Singer from the Sea

    By Sheri S. Tepper

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    A good and proper aristocrat on the isolated, seemingly backward planet of Haven, Genevieve has been carefully instructed in the Covenants -- the ancient, inflexible laws governing the women of her class. She knows what is expected of her: marriage in her mid-twenties to a groom of her father's choosing, childbirth at age thirty. And then soon afterwards -- as has been the lot of so many noblewomen before her -- perhaps death.

    But there is another Genevieve within who longs to heed the call of the sea -- though she has never once seen the vast waters that cover most of her homeworld's surface. For an unheard voice is crying out to her across the centuries, drawing her ever-closer to a terrible truth hidden beneath a smoke screen of rules, tradition, and propriety. And it is Genevieve who must fulfill a forgotten destiny -- something inborn passed for untold generations from daughter to daughter -- or she and the entire civilization of Haven will be swept away on a cosmic wave of oblivion.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJul 13, 2010
    ISBN9780061976384
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    Singer from the Sea
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    Sheri S. Tepper

    Sheri S. Tepper is the author of more than thirty resoundingly acclaimed novels, including The Waters Rising, The Margarets, The Companions, The Visitor, The Fresco, Singer from the Sea, Six Moon Dance, The Family Tree, Gibbon's Decline and Fall, Shadow's End, A Plague of Angels, Sideshow, and Beauty; numerous novellas; stories; poems; and essays. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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    • 4/5
      This is one of my favorite stories from a favorite author of mine. A young woman is raised on a planet where the upper class society is very traditional, and somewhat mysterious. The women tend to die very young, but the men tend to live to a great old age. That's how this story begins, but the further you get into it, the more you realize that something is not right. In fact, there are some very disturbing things going on. I won't reveal the secrets, but I will tell you that Ms Tepper has woven into her yarn some very thought-provoking statements about the social impact of wealth, the dangers of having a resource that everyone else wants (think, Arabian oil), the cost of unintended consequences, and how there's often more going on than there appears to be at first glance. Have I got you curious? Read this review again after you've read the book, and you may find yourself contemplating the story and its ending for years to come.
    • 3/5
      Not one of my favorite of Tepper's novels, this one is low on wonders and high on atrocities. More than usually improbable.
    • 4/5
      I found the cadence of the whole thing to be really pleasing - simple language that still painted a picture in my mind. Lovely overall, but I felt the romance was forced, almost - that might have just been because it wasn't the main part of the story, and so the authoress didn't dedicate more detail to it. Overall, a good read, though!
    • 4/5
      The classic horror tale, "Good Lady Ducayne" meets "Whale Rider." On an alien planet.
      Yep, that about sums it up!

      This was a re-read - I couldn't remember if I'd read it before, but it'd been long enough that it was still very enjoyable. This is Sheri Tepper, so, as one might expect, planets have sentient spirits, women are oppressed in creepy and disturbing ways by evil and powerful men, and a heroine fights for social justice and the environment.

      If you enjoy stories that have vampires and mermaids, you will probably like this book. Not that it HAS vampires or mermaids, technically... but, sorta.
    • 4/5
      This is one of the strangest books that I've ever read. It's like mixing "Dune," "A Handmaid's Tale," and Fern Gully. It does beat you over the head with it's message, but Tepper creates an engaging and imaginative world.
    • 3/5
      Genevieve is an aristocrat on a planet where aristocratic women marry later and die early, usually in childbirth or while nursing a baby, although common women often live to eighty. Over the course of the book, she rebels against this fate and together with the commoner she loves manages to piece together the terrible truth, and discovers the role she is destined to play in saving the planet.I never really warmed to Genevieve and didn't think her words and actions always rang true. It was interesting but I didn't like the ending and overall I preferred "Grass" by the same author.
    • 5/5
      Another compelling Tepper novel - she delights me to no end with the breadth and depth of her imaginings, and each of her novels is so unlike any of the others. Fantastically engaging story, believably terrible and inhumane characters, multidimensional and developed protagonists, a beautiful and optimistic resolution.
    • 5/5
      I Adore Sheri Teppar's books, especially this one. Ms. Teppar is clearly writing with an point she wishes to get across about gender and society, nature and humanity. I am not opposed to points, especially when I agree with them and they are so well written and innovativly treated.