{"id":4215,"date":"2025-07-08T09:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2025-07-08T09:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T14:22:02","slug":"a-mouthful-of-dust-by-nghi-vo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=4215","title":{"rendered":"A Mouthful of Dust, by Nghi Vo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Review copy provided by the publisher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is another of the novellas featuring Cleric Chih and their astonishing memory bird Almost Brilliant, although Almost Brilliant does not get a lot of page time this go-round. This is mainly the story of hunger, desperation, shame, and unquiet ghosts. It&#8217;s about what depths people might sink to when famine comes&#8211;in this story, a famine demon, personified, but the shape of the story won&#8217;t be unfamiliar if you&#8217;ve read about more mundane famines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lines between horror and dark fantasy are as always unclear, but wherever you place <em>A Mouthful of Dust<\/em>, I recommend only reading it when you&#8217;re fully prepared for something unrelentingly bleak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review copy provided by the publisher. This is another of the novellas featuring Cleric Chih and their astonishing memory bird Almost Brilliant, although Almost Brilliant does not get a lot of page time this go-round. This is mainly the story of hunger, desperation, shame, and unquiet ghosts. It&#8217;s about what depths people might sink to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-4215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bookses-precious"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4216,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions\/4216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}