A review by dllh
The Feral Detective by Jonathan Lethem

3.0

This is not my favorite Lethem by miles. It was fine but just didn't click as much for me as some of his others have. There's certainly more going on than I spent real time trying to figure out -- sort of a fable, some political stuff, some stuff about dualism or reconciling contradictions, some stuff about tribalism and othering, and how all these things relate to one another -- and that's all very interesting, but neither these things nor the book's story grabbed me hard enough that I felt compelled to engage really deeply with what Lethem was doing.