5/21/2023 0 Comments Yoko ogawa the memory policeNobody “reads” better than Leif, a 24-year-old poet-barista with an “elfin beauty,” a “moonglow complexion” and a lunatic energy that his peers find impossible to resist. Marginally affiliated with Occupy, they refer to themselves (with varying degrees of earnestness) as the “Working Group for the Refinement of the Perception of Feelings.” The group spends most of its time cultivating a form of mind reading that is, depending on whom you ask, either a supernatural aptitude or “a supersensitive variety of tact.” Like “Necessary Errors,” his debut novel about expatriates in Prague, Crain’s second work of fiction features a circle of young people experimenting with mature identities. Set during Occupy Wall Street in 2011, Caleb Crain’s “Overthrow” explores the fallout that occurs when friendship’s intimate ambiguities become ammunition in an information war. “Overthrow” is, essentially, a 19th-century social novel for the 21st-century surveillance state.
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