A review by jckmd
The Swan Book by Alexis Wright

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

2.0

There is a lot of good stuff in this book, mainly in the prose department, but none of it can make up for the grotesque lack of agency afforded to its ableist, misogynist cardboard cutout of a protagonist. Why you would write a book purporting to denounce the misrepresentation and mistreatment of a people and spend its entirety misrepresenting and mistreating an offensive caricature of one of those people is beyond me. I am so sorry, Oblivia, that you were created to be a misery-porn punching bag and nothing else.