![]() ![]() President Alvarado, who is a Lat (Latino) announces that all treasuries are null and void, that all gold has been called in, and that citizens can leave the country with no more than $100. To wit, in 2029, the dollar has just crashed in Europe, because the USA has defaulted on its loans, after the debt has reached close to 300 percent of the GDP. ![]() It’s a clever, exasperating story, so frightfully good that you want to slap the writer on her back and thank her for her insights, even if much of the time as you read The Mandibles, you feel like checking the Internet to make certain the country still exists. ![]() Nor does she need to because the United States in this disturbing novel is depicted as a nation that has gone under the wrecking ball and barely survived, at least as the country it once was. How prescient, and Shriver doesn’t even mention Trump in her story. Nine months later, reading Shriver’s sizzling novel is downright frightful. At that time Donald Trump was looking increasingly scary, but few people believed he could be elected. People who read Lionel Shriver’s dystopian novel, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-47, last summer when it was published may have said ho-hum it won’t happen here. ![]()
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