The Ice Palace

The Ice Palace

1963 • 170 pages

Ratings16

Average rating3.6

15

A quick search shows a million forum posts decrying that this is about lesbians but no other interpretation of the story makes any sense. Just looking at the hard facts and no personal interpretation of the ice stuff...
-unn keeps away from the other kids for reasons she refuses to talk about
-siss keeps starring at unn at school to the extent the other kids comment on it. Her reaction is basically “and what about it”
- the connection they feel that they cant put into words and their weird awkwardness and excitement around eachother which the first 25% of the story describes
- “we should take our clothes off itd be fun - no wait im embarrassed now this was the worst idea”
-unn tells siss that she has some deep secret that she wouldn't even tell her mother but she may tell siss who then freaks out because she doesn't want to hear it yet and leaves
-talking about the same secret unn says she won't go to heaven
- the next day siss is excited to meet unn at school and greet her so that all her friends know “how they stand”
- siss freaking out about people asking what unn told her even though she technically said nothing unn obviously knows what unn meant.
- siss is afraid the unnamed new leader girl of her friend group will end up missing like unn because she took a liking to her and tells her basically that they can't go to eachothers houses.


Either the author intended to write it as a lesbian story or he has no idea how kids talk to eachother. Either way if you're reading this in the current century it's impossible not to read it as gay.

..this isn't a review I just got annoyed at some forum posts from 2004 ¯_(ツ)_/¯

April 28, 2019