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A review by aileen_macalister
Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
The book's main thread follows Naomi Klein and another writer Naomi Wolf, who's career path was so similar to Klein's for such a long period that the two are often confused. However, Wolf's life takes a dramatic shift to the right and Klein finds herself constantly "called out" for Wolf's views.
This leads Klein to look into the far right and conspiracy theories while also analysing references to doppelgangers throughout literature and history.
It is a fascinating window into the "mirror world" as Klein refers to it. It took me a couple of chapters to get into the book as she has to spend a good amount of time setting the scene and describing the similarities of herself and Wolf before she can get to the good stuff but once she gets into it the story takes you on an journey through this mirror world from Anti-vaxers to Palestine and everything in-between.
For me, listening to it as an audiobook made it so much easier to take in.
Overall it's an exploration into what it means to be a human in today's world and what "the self" really means.
This leads Klein to look into the far right and conspiracy theories while also analysing references to doppelgangers throughout literature and history.
It is a fascinating window into the "mirror world" as Klein refers to it. It took me a couple of chapters to get into the book as she has to spend a good amount of time setting the scene and describing the similarities of herself and Wolf before she can get to the good stuff but once she gets into it the story takes you on an journey through this mirror world from Anti-vaxers to Palestine and everything in-between.
For me, listening to it as an audiobook made it so much easier to take in.
Overall it's an exploration into what it means to be a human in today's world and what "the self" really means.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide
Moderate: Racism, Slavery, Violence, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, War, Classism, and Pandemic/Epidemic