Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

Now that I’ve read two novels by Matt Ruff, I feel I can safely say that the man has a knack for captivating fantasy novels with a social conscience. His novel, The Mirage, flipped our world on its head to point out the violent absurdities of the War on Terror. In Lovecraft Country, Ruff redresses a long-held genre problem. Fantasy, science fiction, and horror are mighty white genres—especially before Octavia Butler and Samuel Delany started getting published. In Lovecraft Country, the family and friends of Atticus Turner get dragged into a war between two scrabbling lodges of magicians. The linked stories are set in 1954, mostly in Chicago, but while Turner and his family and friends are dealing with the magicians, they also have to deal with virulent, institutionalized racism...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this ebook from Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review.