michaelclorah 's review for:

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
4.0

A massively compelling book that examines the fear and turmoil lived by a young Jewish boy and his family in a United States under the sway of isolationist extremism and antisemitic bigotry. Roth wanders off the book's emotional heart toward the end, breaking down the fate of the Lindbergh-led republic and drifting away from the family at the book's core, but the themes of alienation, paranoia, and exclusion (or forced integration) will stick with me a long, long time.