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A review by cmadrenas
Big Machine by Victor LaValle
5.0
I liked a book! Spoilers but: my exploded head is still being scraped off walls for the way this guy managed to pull off such an impacting examination of race, class and faith in a story where a man in an anachronistic suit gets pregnant by a swamp thing and figures he’d better shoot up some heroin to nip swampbaby in the bud. Jesus.
Sidenote, the problem is, I wonder what your average American Book Award Brought Me Here reader would’ve been thinking as they set the book down. I wonder if there’re people reading Big Machine as a narrative outlining why people (black especially) need to work harder to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and that’s worrying.
Still read this though.
Sidenote, the problem is, I wonder what your average American Book Award Brought Me Here reader would’ve been thinking as they set the book down. I wonder if there’re people reading Big Machine as a narrative outlining why people (black especially) need to work harder to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and that’s worrying.
Still read this though.