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A review by mark_cc
Amnesia Moon by Jonathan Lethem
4.0
I was worried going in because I was sure that the setting would be left frustratingly unexplained. I was half right.
It was left unexplained, but not frustratingly. Lethem uses the Weird Apocalypse setting to build up mystery, sure, but does much more work to make those mysteries personal to the character of Chaos and the themes of the book. When I started to care more about the connections of people and the society(ies) they made up, the question of what caused the Weird Apocalypse (TM) mattered a whole lot less.
It was left unexplained, but not frustratingly. Lethem uses the Weird Apocalypse setting to build up mystery, sure, but does much more work to make those mysteries personal to the character of Chaos and the themes of the book. When I started to care more about the connections of people and the society(ies) they made up, the question of what caused the Weird Apocalypse (TM) mattered a whole lot less.