Thank you NetGalley for a chance to read The Tapestry.

This book was unlike anything I’ve ever read before. I’m still deciding if I enjoyed the reading experience or if I just kept reading because the book was so ~different~. I would probably recommend this to others just so they had the experience of reading it.

I just read the Tapestry by Audrey N Lewis and here is my review.

The world changed in a moment for Maia. After giving birth to a blind, albino hermaphrodite, she seeks a place where both her and her baby Justice, can be safe. A pack of coyotes accept them into their fold and life begins for the pair. They find a cottage where food and everything they need just appears, bought by unseen forces.

Knowing the world isn’t a place they can blend in, they are forced to rejoin it after they are made to leave the safety of the cottage. Maia finds it hard to fit into this world but is grateful for Justice and the wonderful gift they wield. The weaving of colorful tapestries that predict the future.
Justice knows what to do with their gift and opens themselves up to the beautiful people around them with courage only one with a true heart can do.
The book is beautifully written. The words are as colorful and luxurious as the tapestries Justice weaves in the book. The book flowed with such symmetry and poise that you cannot help being drawn into a world you could never have imagined by yourself. I so wanted to know more about the cottage but the joys of magical realism books are you never always know all the answers which leaves you begging for more.
Justice for me, symbolizes the balance of the masuline and feminine in everything in the world and the fact that no one is beyond their love. There are no boundaries when it comes to loving openness and I feel that was a powerful lesson I took from the book!
Such a powerfully written book and one I will read again! The writing style is so unique and thought provoking that it will leave you with a slight book hangover! I had to sit and ponder after I had finished!
4.5 stars! Magical realism is such a rich genre and if you love a good magical realism read then this one has to be next on your list!
Thank you to netgalley and Audrey Lewis for my ARC in exchange for my honest review.

An engaging fantasy of familial loved

Maia is lost in the forest when suddenly in immense physical pain she delivers a baby with both male and female genitals. A pack of coyotes lead the family to a safe haven where Justice as the baby is named is raised as a boy until puberty when they are forced to leave their safe haven. A fast-paced tale but blurred timelines and certain plot holes leave unanswered questions.

The writing is meticulous in this genre-fluid, gender-bending book. It has a base of magical realism, but it is so much more than that. The author keeps the reader engrossed in the lives of Maia and Justice as both mother and child grow and mature.

Maia starts off a bit lost, as would any young, single, mother. She has been given a very difficult job in raising a child as special as is blind, but gifted, Justice. Maia is frightened, alone, with no resources, and no education, and no knowledge of child-rearing outside of what she’s gained in helping to care for her younger siblings. The story basically begins here. I am not going to tell you more. You must read it. It is unbelievable.

The tale has a timeliness that is applicable to yesterday, today, and will still be important tomorrow. It is relevant to both sexes, and to all genders. It has meaning to all classes and every walk of life.

The Tapestry is a reminder to see the beauty in one another, to look past culturally-defined (or personally-adopted) prejudices, and remember that all people are the same under the skin.
This is, without exception, the most moving, most important book, I have read this decade. It absolutely emotionally floored me.

The reader should understand that this book is more than just a book. It’s a journey of enlightenment.

Thank you Audrey Lewis and Netgalley, for this free ARC in exchange for a review.

There are some grammar problems that should be fixed before this is published. Second, the use of larger text quotations from the protagonist might have been meant to seem charming, but it just breaks the flow of the story, and seems clumsy.

The story is interesting, and I was curious to figure out the mystery. However, it was too depressing for my taste. But aside from the minor grammar problems, it was written well enough. It was beautiful the way that [Justice helped so many people. She was a very strange healer who was full of love