It got another 5-star review posted all over the book-o-sphere. Here it is on Amazon, showing up four days ago:
“Noah is on the run after becoming the innocent suspect in a terrorist bus bombing in a dystopian, extremely near, future US, in which society is on the verge of political, economic (and astronomical) implosion. Noah is an everyman and you see the world through his trusting and rather loving eyes as he races across the country through communes, bee farms, burning man, the hacker-saboteur political underground, and eventually winds up face to face with the highest reaches of deep state power, which turn out to be all too intimate and familial. It’s all very serious, and occasionally quite dark. Except it’s funny as hell. Rachel is an immensely witty and readable writer, whose verbal flights are always aimed at evocation (I’ve never read as vivid a description of burning man) and laughter. It’s a comic political picaresque, equal emphasis on comedy and politics, without a single dull page. Why haven’t you heard of it? Because it’s too good and too much fun, that’s why.” – brecht (reviewer)
Mind you, this book was published almost seven years ago. Specific incidents aside, as whacky and outrageously funny as it apparently is, it’s truly astonishing how well it captures the absurdity and circus-like environment of our current politics.
If you want a good laugh to dispel some of the anxiety and pessimism which saturates the media and political landscape, take it for a spin.
