Ha, yes, nowhere near as dramatic! Mostly in the Mrs. Pollifax books, she meets somebody very wise and attuned to the transcendent universe, or somebody who has second sight and gets hunches; it's all in the plausibly deniable "well she believes them and the narration is clearly supportive of this but this COULD just be somebody very chill/insightful/etc within normal limits" way, as far as I can recall, with a few characters who get some extra narrative vindication thrown behind it. Very Frances Hodgson Burnett, only slightly less so.
I haven't read Caravan since I was a teenager and I cannot at ALL vouch for the level of unfortunate orientalism it may contain; I suspect it has a good bit, but I've forgotten all the details, so maybe it holds up better than I fear! It's really only that moment that stuck in my head. (Partly because my dad about threw the book across the room when he read it; he maintained for years that he didn't like fantasy books, but I think it's actually that he doesn't like to be surprised by fantasy content. If he knows going in that something is full of time travel or wizards he's fine with that.)
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Date: 2024-04-08 05:50 pm (UTC)I haven't read Caravan since I was a teenager and I cannot at ALL vouch for the level of unfortunate orientalism it may contain; I suspect it has a good bit, but I've forgotten all the details, so maybe it holds up better than I fear! It's really only that moment that stuck in my head. (Partly because my dad about threw the book across the room when he read it; he maintained for years that he didn't like fantasy books, but I think it's actually that he doesn't like to be surprised by fantasy content. If he knows going in that something is full of time travel or wizards he's fine with that.)