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Pym by Mat Johnson

4.0

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What a totally weird and hilarious book, featuring an all-black crew adventuring to Antarctica, intertexual literary analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's lone novel, sharp race commentary, also slavery and apocalypse and Little Debbie snack cakes. Falls short of five stars on account of not passing the Bechdel test, and all women characters being useful/existing only in relationship to men.