A review by meganmilks
Bald New World by Peter Tieryas Liu

5.0

I have not added this book to any shelves because I have no categories for it! It's entirely its own thing, imagining a world where everyone has lost their hair due to an inexplicable event known as Great Baldification. But that's only the start of the weirdness here--everything's just a little bit off, a satire that hits on everything, the humor deadpan and covered by layers of grief and disaffection. My favorite scenes involved cricket fighting, where humans dive into cricket psyches to operate their bodies, resulting in a blurring of human-cricket boundaries--with a gambling subculture emerging around it. Then there's hair farming, spies, and wig moguls--terrorism at the wig factory--weird, wild, fun struck through with social commentary.