A review by sharkybookshelf
A Simple Intervention by Yael Inokai

4.0

A new surgical intervention promises to free patients from psychological disorders…

This was good, with a deceptively simple premise. Inokai explores the idea of society trying to “fix” any psychological issues simply by removing them completely, raising interesting questions around what makes us who we are, the good and the “bad” and how we relate to ourselves. Can we excise a particular aspect of ourselves without a cost to our overall identity? Is any such cost worth it? Who decides?

It stumbled towards the end - granted, I’m not a fan of leaving things open-ended, but I’d have liked the final scenario to be a little more fleshed-out and evenly paced.

An interesting exploration of society’s attitude to psychological differences and how our psychological make-up and identity are intertwined.