{"id":21321,"date":"2016-03-11T10:17:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T18:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachelswirsky.com\/?p=995"},"modified":"2016-03-11T10:17:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T18:17:52","slug":"favorite-fiction-recommendation-this-strange-way-of-dying-by-silvia-moreno-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21321","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Fiction Recommendation: \u201cThis Strange Way of Dying\u201d by Silvia Moreno-Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was occasionally, informally reading slush for Giganotosaurus at the time this story came into the inbox. I read Moreno-Garcia&#8217;s version of <a href=\"http:\/\/giganotosaurus.org\/2011\/08\/01\/this-strange-way-of-dying\/\">a maiden and Death<\/a>, and recommended the delicate prose and imagery to Ann Leckie who eventually made the purchase.<\/p>\n<p>It begins:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Life_and_death._Oil_painting._Wellcome_L0076241.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-999\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-999 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Life_and_death._Oil_painting._Wellcome_L0076241.jpg?resize=253%2C300\" alt=\"Creative commons, from wellcome, see information in file name.\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Life_and_death._Oil_painting._Wellcome_L0076241.jpg?resize=253%2C300 253w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rachelswirsky.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Life_and_death._Oil_painting._Wellcome_L0076241.jpg?w=647 647w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Georgina met Death when she was ten. The first time she saw him she was reading by her grandmother\u2019s bedside. As Georgina tried to pronounce a difficult word, she heard her grandmother groan and looked up. There was a bearded man in a top hat standing by the bed. He wore an orange flower in his buttonhole, the kind Georgina put on the altars on the Day of the Dead.<\/p>\n<p>The man smiled at Georgina with eyes made of coal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/giganotosaurus.org\/2011\/08\/01\/this-strange-way-of-dying\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was occasionally, informally reading slush for Giganotosaurus at the time this story came into the inbox. I read Moreno-Garcia&rsquo;s version of a maiden and Death, and recommended the delicate prose and imagery to Ann Leckie who eventually made the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rachelswirsky.com\/2016\/03\/favorite-fiction-recommendation-this-strange-way-of-dying-by-silvia-moreno-garcia\/\">Continue reading <span>&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=21321\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recommended-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21322,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21321\/revisions\/21322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}