Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2022
This is not your typical post-apocalyptic novel. Some of the usual tropes of global warming and nuclear disaster followed by armed conflict, disease and death are presented as background. But the heart of the novel is the delightful tale of a blossoming romance some three centuries later. As the couple try to find their way in a society that doesn’t accept their relationship (though not for the reasons you might expect), the author deftly explains how their society came to be with the recitation of traditional lore and the journal of the eponymous Mother Rainbow which they discover. Along the way you will be encouraged to think about many aspects of our current society – how technology depends as much on the resources available to a culture as on the skill and innovation of the people, how historical memory is malleable and subject to revision as new evidence comes to light, how so many things we take for granted (our calendar, our language, our patterns of family and marriage) might have evolved differently, and how large a society might grow without formal institutions of law, property, and money. You will be entertained, educated, and challenged as you follow the story to its hopeful conclusion.
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Mother Rainbow's Children: The Cave
