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⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 Reading False Orbit as Someone Who Knows What It Feels Like!!! My father did not go to Mars. He went to another city, another life, another family, effectively. The mechanics differ from Daniel McCauley's departure but the interior weather does not. I want to be upfront about this because I think it shaped everything I experienced reading False Orbit, and because I believe it is also why Lanigan's novel struck me with such unusual force. He gets it right. That is both the simple and the complicated thing I want to say. The specific texture of being a child who must construct a narrative around an absence, who needs the absent parent to have had reasons, preferably good ones, because the alternative is unbearable. Taylor's relationship to her father's choices is not one of simple rage or simple grief but of something far more knotted: the need to understand mixing constantly with the fear that understanding will change nothing. The flash drive section is where Lanigan's insight becomes almost uncomfortable in its accuracy. The specific cruelty of partial explanation. The way a parent's attempt at honesty can become just another form of self-service. Taylor's response to what she finds is handled with the kind of psychological precision that you normally only encounter in memoir. False Orbit is not a therapeutic book in any simple sense. It does not resolve its pain into lesson. But it sees clearly and renders what it sees with deep compassion, and that, for some readers, will be enough. It was for me. #bijrc #magicalbooktour #booktour #bookislandofjuhi #reading

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