Book Review: Sorrowland

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This book was published by the Brooklyn-based publisher Akashic Books, which I note because they are the publisher of Go the F to Sleep. It is about a young woman, as my books are, who escapes basically from cult where she was raised a strict religious compound. So you can go seek Sorrowland out, if you would like. And that's a list of accolades overdue podcasts says pretty good book.

Imagine a version of the spaceship from Wall-E, but with racial and class divisions that mirror those in our own society. That's a (dramatically oversimplified) one-line summary of what's going on in this week's book.

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