Turn around and you’re tiny, Turn around and you’re grown
Larque on the Wing
By Nancy Springer
5 Nov, 2016
James Tiptree, Jr. Award
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Holy crap, it has been over a year since I wrote my last Tiptree Award review.
Nancy Springer’s standalone contemporary fantasy Larque on the Wing shared the 1994 Tiptree Award with Le Guin’s “The Matter of Segri.”
An outsider might say that artist Larque Harootunian is by many measures a success. She runs a thriving craft business; she’s married with children. Her marriage is somewhat unconventional, but it’s still within her comfort (or at least toleration) zone. The only notable off-notes in her outwardly successful life are the memories that haunt her.
Granted, almost everyone is haunted by the ghosts of their past …but what would be metaphor for anyone else is literal truth for Larque.