A review by graventy
Red Plenty by Francis Spufford

2.0

A very well-written book, but I found myself increasingly put off by the blurring of the fiction and non-fiction divide. Spufford does a very good job of sourcing the non-fiction and admitting the fiction, so it's not like he's covering up anything. I just came to the book hungry to experience life behind the Iron Curtain, so to speak, and left frustrated and disappointed by the truthiness of it all.

I felt like he handled one of his female characters poorly too.