/lit/ - Literature

I ought to be finished with this by tomorrow. Has anyone else read it?

>>2611640

This motherfucker right here. Kingsolver is not a bad writer in my opinion, but the politics dominate the narrative to an intrusive degree. Several pro-U.S. characters are obvious strawmen, and important historical details are omitted or distorted.

For instance, while lecturing the reader on the evils of U.S. foreign policy, one of the intelligent, beautiful leftist characters criticizes the U.S.'s support of one particular warring faction in the Congo, claiming (not without reason) that they are partly responsible for the war and poverty in the region. However, she goes on to explain her support for the warring leftist factions as a "vote for doctors and teachers and peace", or something to that effect, while neglecting to mention that the Soviet Union and Cuba directly supplied the Congo with tens of thousands of troops and hundreds of millions of dollars of military equipment, far more than the United States or their allies.

Kingsolver exhaustively researched this novel, and should have known better than to engage in such reckless historical revisionism.