{"id":46610,"date":"2020-04-09T11:12:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T15:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=46610"},"modified":"2020-12-31T15:06:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T20:06:19","slug":"the-vanished-birds-by-simon-jimenez-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-vanished-birds-by-simon-jimenez-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-46615\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/Vanished-Birds-Simon-Jimenez-BookDragon-526x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"526\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/Vanished-Birds-Simon-Jimenez-BookDragon-526x800.jpg 526w, https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/03\/Vanished-Birds-Simon-Jimenez-BookDragon.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nEarth\u2019s destruction, space inhabitation, time travel \u2013 none of that is unfamiliar. Rampant capitalism, workaholic isolation, and family bonds too can be pedestrian themes. Yet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simonjimenezauthor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Simon Jimenez<\/a>\u2019s debut, which includes all of the above, is a remarkably fresh, electrifying story that, at its core, honors the unbreakable mother\/child-link.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Nia commands a Pocket Space-hopping, cargo-distributing, for-hire ship \u2013 eight months in transit equals 15 years on the rural planet where her lover Kaeda lives and ages \u2013 where Nia claims a mute boy who reportedly fell out of the sky. The boy \u2013 who will eventually speak, reveal his brutal past, and learn the flute \u2013 becomes Nia\u2019s most cherished (reciprocated) connection. But Nia can\u2019t keep him secret when aerospace engineering genius Fumiko Nakajima targets the boy as the key to controlling time travel.\u00a0Deals are made, loyalties tested, but the link holds fast.<\/p>\n<p>Comparisons to groundbreaking sci-fi\/fantasy superstar N.K. Jemisin (Broken Earth series) have been quick to surface, making narrator Shayna Small an already-anointed cipher since she was part of Jemisin\u2019s aural cast for bestselling <em>How Long \u2018Til Black Future Month?<\/em> (2018). Small adroitly embodies Jimenez\u2019s diverse cast \u2013 whose ethnicities remain predominantly, refreshingly, unspecified beyond mention of a sari, a given name \u2013 bestowing accents, personalities, even unique tics to create an adventure that is out of this world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booklistonline.com\/The-Vanished-Birds-\/pid=9731680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">&#8220;Media,&#8221; <em>Booklist<\/em>, April 1, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW Earth\u2019s destruction, space inhabitation, time travel \u2013 none of that is unfamiliar. Rampant capitalism, workaholic isolation, and family bonds too can be pedestrian themes. 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