Status Updates From We Are Underlings: A Novel

“It is this very colonial hierarchy that created the conditions for an expat killer to butcher two young migrant women and put their body parts into a suitcase. Newspapers treated the criminal, a British banker, with the utmost respect, depicting him as an important member of society. His name was repeated over and over again, while newspapers buried the women’s names: Sumarti Ningsih and Seneng Mujiasih...”

Jesus

“All the while, these employers want to believe they are good people who aren’t participating in the contemporary equivalent of slavery, so they make documentaries and art about how they see their helpers as human beings.”

Ew

“If I suspect the colleague is a sociopath offering tainted food, I wrap it up and toss it in the garbage, though sometimes I think I should have the food tested to see if I’m just paranoid or if there’s truth to my gut feeling.”

Girl what

The author somehow managed to make a book about necromancy feel so mundane 😐

“It troubles me that the company has appointed itself the steward for bodies, burial boxes, and ceremonial robes that were obtained from around the world in unsavory ways—most often colonial looting and wartime plunder. Then we are placing these objects in the context of a theme park. Somehow we absolve ourselves of responsibility because the provenance cannot be proven beyond the last owner...”

Jesus Christ