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hermetic

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10. You sure hit new and fat

Sun Apr 19, 2020, 02:17 PM

Apr 2020

with this one. 700 pages and not many reviews out there yet. This is evidently a pretty complicated story. "..a theme Chute returns to repeatedly, the basic problem of just describing something accurately, of giving form to reality. The events of the novel take place circa-Y2K, but Chute’s concerns seem very 2020: how reality is named, created, fragmented, trolled, distorted."

The New York Times has an amazing article which certainly piqued my interest so I thought I'd link it here in case others want to learn a bit more about this.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/books/review/the-recipe-for-revolution-carolyn-chute.html

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