Freddie DeBoer couldn't recommend this more highly, so on the list it went! And I almost finished it in one go (it's short and the vignettes alternating between poetic and satire) but after leaving the book aside for 4 days, I just couldn't recapture what I was entranced by in the first place. the novel is heavily influenced by the Trump presidency and climate change and the author does a good job of slowly descending the narrator into bleak Armageddon. But I don't live living there, or planning for there, so ultimately it didn't resonate with me.

in many ways it reminded me of No One is Talking About This - very current and also mesmerising in the first go. maybe some books are just meant to be consumed like a film: in one go