Medlar Comfits: Read everything by Célestine Hitiura Vaite

24 February 2007

Read everything by Célestine Hitiura Vaite

and you'll wish there were more, but until then, you'll want to read these again.

The Materena Mahi trilogy:

Breadfruit: The Drunken Marriage Proposal and Everything that Happened Next

Frangipani: The Mother Whose Daughter Amazed Her and Everything that Happened Next

Tiare: The Husband Who Didn't Deserve His Wife and Everything that Happened Next

in quite a few editions and a growing number of languages.

Go!

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from Oddness/Forbidden Futures

"Her love for the lives and fortunes of the small is most evident to me in her dog-centered stories. “The Dog Who’d Been Dead”, “Shaking Heaven’s Fleas”, and “Bones from Heaven” involve the afterlife of dogs—where they go, what concerns them, how they feel about the humans with whom they are so closely linked, and their own relationship with d/Death. Tambour beautifully enters into the minds and souls of dogs here, and if nothing else, her concern for the little ones, human creation’s overlooked ones, makes her work and this collection in particular immensely rewarding." -- Jeremy Brett, The SFF Librarian Reviews, Ancillary Review of Books, August 2023

from Infinity Plus

"An awful lot in this book. As with her magnificent CRANDOLIN, perhaps too much. Yet it is not a book measured for a market, and we need more of that. Tambour has, I hope, quite a few more coming. And I hope that the market finds her. The language she is evolving for telling the kinds of wild and biting stories she is interested in is part vernacular, part natural historian, full of wit and pulling its drama from an assumed sharing of empathy for those in the predicaments in which her characters find themselves." - Paul Voermans, "Technique of Awful: When Extremity Takes Us Past the Real", 10/22/2017, The New York Review of Science Fiction