## Review Date #note/sourcereview/book | #source/book📚/fiction ## What is the story Chapter 1 is the best description of [[provisional identity]] I have heard in fiction, as Sibling Dex walks away from their job and into a new life, exploring what it means to be a tea-monk. Dex cycles through beginner tea monk, but after becoming a tea monk expert, they feel trapped in their life. They flee and seek adventure in the wilds, finally running into a new robot companion. Dex and the robot, Splendid Speckled Mosscap, begin to learn about one another. Mosscap becomes both a friend and a mirror. Their time is after the age of factories, where humans have lived to learn with boundaries, and robots have learned to live on their own. ## What else do I wonder about? _Is this too campy? When is it blindly positive and when is it [[hopeful skeptic]]?_ ## Action Feel good for a few minutes ## When do I want to stumble across this? #on/identity | #on/transformative | #on/provisionalidentity| #on/future ## Source: Chambers, B. (2021). _A psalm for the wild-built_ (First Edition). Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book.