kerdakai 's review for:

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

5.0

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Brilliant, brief but sprawling. It's remarkable that Mumbo Jumbo's central themes tackling the fragility of Western Civilization still feel so trenchant now a half century after its release. Reads like a novel-length poem, dizzyingly discursive but smart, funny and vulgar enough to never be too intimidating.