![]() ![]() Dani’s papers are forged, and I can’t figure out what the problem is because part of her notoriety in the school is that she’s from a tough place but has done well. Anywho, the Medio police crack down and are demanding every girl’s papers because letting the protestors in was an inside job. Read that setup in many a book, and I s’pose this is author Tehlor Kay Mejia’s way of describing today’s wealth/health gap between rich and poor. Okay, so the audiobook opens with a protest of people from the other side of the wall, the impoverished side, bewailing the injustice of living and dying desperate lives in squalor even as people in Medio (The “chosen” and powerful side of this island all are living on), are wealthy, healthy, and it’s unfair… blah blah blah. Lemme explain: Marriages of the powerful have a Primera, who is the stalwart and hyper rational wife in this triangle, and a Segunda, who nurtures the husband, is his sexual mate, has his children. ![]() As marriages in Medio, the Chosen side of the wall, are triangles, her Segunda is Carmen, her archenemy. Our heroine is Dani Vargas, a girl, er, young woman, who is the top Primera in her school, coming from the slums, rising to an outstanding marriage to a political bigwig. Let’s start with what We Set the Dark on Fire is about: Kinda on the fence about this one-has its pluses, has its minuses… By: Tehlor Kay Mejia / Narrated By: Kyla Garcia ![]()
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