This is a break from my usual topics to let you know that my friend Hannah Gersen recently published her second novel. I am about a third of the way in, and I can already tell you that you should read it. The story concerns the US military’s surprising interest in new age medicine. The narrator (like the author) shares my climate despair.
Hannah has a straightforward and undemonstrative prose style that gets at big emotional and political themes without melodrama. If I wrote novels, this is how I would want to write them. Also, Hannah has a suggested reading list to go along with the book. I have read a few of the titles on it, and that makes me want to read the rest of them.