Uneven
2 stars
Content warning Describes broad aspects of the story
This is not a bad book, but it's so wrapped up in describing a set of specific of historical moments and contexts (London, early 2010s, Brazil) that I felt lost within it.
I heard the author interviewed on the TrashFuture podcast and she spoke compellingly, but sadly I just never found traction with this one. This may be more about me than the book though. The prose was good an evocative. The sections within Brazil were more compelling. The plight of a small group of young people trying to survive and forge meaning in the atomising world of late stage capitalism should matter. But the pacing was... off? It felt floated and uneven.
It lost me, or I lost it.
Not for me, but it may be for you.