Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book is hypnotic and disturbing. Wright pairs the long history of injustice to Australian Aborigines with a complete break down in the world’s climate to create a desolate, dying landscape, populated by people who have lost their roots. Throughout the book, we watch two kinds of people. The first kind wait for things to happen to them, who passively survive their circumstances. The second kind, the kind who try to change their circumstances, are rarer. But The Swan Book is not a simple story of active versus passive people; it also explores how interference cane make things so much worse...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type. I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley for review consideration.