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A review by stuartjrodriguez
American Pop by Snowden Wright
5.0
I adore this novel. I love the playfulness, dexterity, and beauty of Wright’s writing, and all of the gorgeous turns of phrase and tiny details in this book; I love the tragic depth of each of the Forster family members; I love the elastic way this novel plays with time, and the way Wright enlivens so many throwaway characters and details with a description a few sentence long of some detail of that person that we’ll never come back to, but which serve to enrich the world building that much more.
This is one of two novels I find myself re-reading at least once a year, which I realized recently is my actual metric for what my favorite books are. Which ones do I want to come back to? Which ones make me happy to read or listen to? I can pretty confidently say this is my all-time favorite historical literary fiction novel.
This is one of two novels I find myself re-reading at least once a year, which I realized recently is my actual metric for what my favorite books are. Which ones do I want to come back to? Which ones make me happy to read or listen to? I can pretty confidently say this is my all-time favorite historical literary fiction novel.