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chris_chester 's review for:
Crook Manifesto
by Colson Whitehead
Picks up more or less where Pepper and Carney left off in the first book, with Carney getting sucked back into the underworld by a very mundane task for his kid.
It reads very much like Whitehead has been doing research on the 70s and wanted to hit stuff like the fires, avante garde Black film and stagflation and just wove the narrative through those gates to hit the stuff he wanted to talk about.
I was a little surprised we didn't get more about the Black revolutionaries which feel like the thing most particular to this time in Harlem, though they are there to a certain degree.
At the end of the day, the book read like Whitehead was having fun with these characters and any time an author of his caliber is having fun, generally it's a good time.
It reads very much like Whitehead has been doing research on the 70s and wanted to hit stuff like the fires, avante garde Black film and stagflation and just wove the narrative through those gates to hit the stuff he wanted to talk about.
I was a little surprised we didn't get more about the Black revolutionaries which feel like the thing most particular to this time in Harlem, though they are there to a certain degree.
At the end of the day, the book read like Whitehead was having fun with these characters and any time an author of his caliber is having fun, generally it's a good time.