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A review by rachelini
The Mirage by Matt Ruff
4.0
Often times, when I love an author, I'll put their latest book on hold without even looking to see what it's about, and then I'll start reading it without even an idea of what it's about. And then I'll be very confused, because it's talking about the Twin Towers in Baghdad and I can't decide if maybe I just don't know anything about the Middle East.
Or maybe the book is actually set in an alternate world where Arabia is the superpower and 11/9 attacks on Baghdad were by Christian fundamentalists. So I'm not crazy after all!
This was a great book, highly detailed and subversively funny, about some Arabic homeland security agents who start to find hints that maybe the world is not quite...right, that it's backwards somehow.
Or maybe the book is actually set in an alternate world where Arabia is the superpower and 11/9 attacks on Baghdad were by Christian fundamentalists. So I'm not crazy after all!
This was a great book, highly detailed and subversively funny, about some Arabic homeland security agents who start to find hints that maybe the world is not quite...right, that it's backwards somehow.