A review by mmcloe
Corey Fah Does Social Mobility by Isabel Waidner

adventurous challenging funny lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

It's really easy to describe books like this as "acid trips" or "surreal nightmares" or whatever but it's honestly not any more baffling than the original Disney Bambi which is some of the most bizarre anthropomorphization of heterosexuality I've ever seen. I think this book does a good job at highlighting just how stupid so much of neoliberal capitalism and all of its social institutions can be. There's violence and exclusion, certainly, but also so much foolishness and distorted logic that the kind of landscape in this novel is often the only way to capture it.