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Victoria Goddard
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The tan� holds the fire of the community. Thirteen-year-old Kip's always felt a bit of an outsider, but he knows he has what it takes to become the next tan�. He just needs to persuade his Buru Tovo that he's ready for the next step of his apprenticeship. And then take it--but that's easy, right? A novelette of approximately 11,000 words.
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LibraryThing member jjmcgaffey
Oh, that's lovely. Kip as a boy - he's done some of the things we learned about in Hands of the Emperor, like diving for his pearls, but here he's trying to get established as Buru Tova's apprentice. Lovely story - and I'm delighted to see that the market in Hands wasn't his first encounter with
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someone who's more than he seems. Heh, the bit where he references a Lay and the other reacts... I'm being very obscure - it's a short piece, and there's not much to say that wouldn't be a spoiler. But I loved all of it. I do want to read the story that explains how he got from here to taking the civil service exam, though. And I can see the patterns that caused him so much trouble in Hands forming. Show Less
LibraryThing member quondame
Kip has learned the lays and dances and the forms of patience he must hold to be taná though his failure to dive for a flame pearl has shaken him and at 13 the strength of his desire pushes him toward perfection. Now he seeks to win the obsidian pendant to center his efela ko. We get snips of
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Kip's life outside his house in Tahivoa, the barber shop and the house of Saya Dorn and what seems like rather of lot of young impatient earnestness from Kip for such a short story. Show Less
LibraryThing member jennybeast
I’m finally beginning to understand that the reason I love these little books about the lays of the hearth fire so much is that they center ritual — they honor the importance that ritual can play in showing us where we are the world. In this little story, Kip takes some of his first independent
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steps to prove himself to his teacher. Lovely. Show Less
Original publication date
2022
Local notes
Lays of the Hearth-Fire, .3
DDC/MDS
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