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A review by eggjuices
The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
4.75
4.75 boarding on 5 stars because I am unnecessarily picky and will always find a reason to not give something 5 stars …. but this was incredible.
So sad. Exceptionally painful. I would have liked to have read this faster but there were moments where I had to put it down. There are the obvious parallels to today that many before me have recognized, but it really made the book so challenging to work through. Thinking about the genocide in Gaza, the rise of Trump and new age MAGA fascism…. even the uncertain relationship between US and Canada that I am currently experiencing. It is all so real and so horrifying.
I love the women in this novel. I feel so much pain for them - even Aunt Evelyn as horrible as her actions were. Mrs Roth and Mrs Wishnow are such wonderful mothers, and I appreciate how even through the child’s eyes we could still see their hurt and their pain, and how they tried to protect their children from it all as much as they could. Also poor Seldon!! I love how much Philip hated him so unnecessarily hahaha, Roth did a great job portraying the childhood experience of having a friend who you hate for no reason.
“How can this be happening in America? How can people like these be in charge of our country? If I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I’d think I was having a hallucination.”
So sad. Exceptionally painful. I would have liked to have read this faster but there were moments where I had to put it down. There are the obvious parallels to today that many before me have recognized, but it really made the book so challenging to work through. Thinking about the genocide in Gaza, the rise of Trump and new age MAGA fascism…. even the uncertain relationship between US and Canada that I am currently experiencing. It is all so real and so horrifying.
I love the women in this novel. I feel so much pain for them - even Aunt Evelyn as horrible as her actions were. Mrs Roth and Mrs Wishnow are such wonderful mothers, and I appreciate how even through the child’s eyes we could still see their hurt and their pain, and how they tried to protect their children from it all as much as they could. Also poor Seldon!! I love how much Philip hated him so unnecessarily hahaha, Roth did a great job portraying the childhood experience of having a friend who you hate for no reason.
“How can this be happening in America? How can people like these be in charge of our country? If I didn’t see it with my own eyes, I’d think I was having a hallucination.”