What's Next? discussion

“Even angels are animals”.
“A society manufactures the heros it requires”.

A dark, apocalyptic, pandemic story written in 2011 by Colson Whitehead, who won the Pulitzer prize for The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad.

Harder to get through than expected although the book finds a rhythm halfway through. The story is a commentary on NY living -- Manhattan as "a monster” that “swallowed people up” -- and commercialistic routines that made people zombies. I'll skip the spoilers; in the end, we still root for humanity to survive.

Agree, I've also just finished this. It took a bit of reading. Good but not great. Very dark book.