Helen Dewitt's skill and wish not to be pigeon holed definitely shine through as we smile about a business (and, metaphorically, a country) that strays unaware from innocence to enforce a system that's both socially and professionally inappropriate whilst being led incrementally along a pathway of apparent well-argued coherence. We find it amusing because we recognise the allegory and the USA and because we're safe in the knowledge that the same metaphor wouldn't hold up for our country. Well, it wouldn't… Would it?
A special 'thank you' to New Directions Publishing And Other Stories for providing us with a copy for review.
If you've enjoyed this and would like to stick with the satirically unusual, we heartily recommend [[Albert of Adelaide by Howard L Anderson]]. (There's a lot less jiggy with it too by the way.)