Tuesday, January 22, 2019

The Feral Detective

The Feral Detective: a Novel / Jonathan Lethem, 326 p.

Phoebe's dear friend Roslyn's daughter Arabella has gone missing from her college dorm room, and Phoebe sets out to find her.  Clues point to Los Angeles and there Phoebe meets private detective Charles Heist.  From there things turn very strange: Arabella may gotten involved with one of two feuding desert cult groups, the Rabbits and the Bears.  They're violent off-the-gridders, or they might be, but the good news is that Charles knows all about them because he used to be a Rabbit.  Or a Bear.  Or something.  The details didn't make a lot of sense to me, frankly.  The entire story tries to operate as a not-quite allegory of post-election polarized America.  I was entertained but not fully convinced.

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