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The more I think about it, the more I feel that Lewis did actually want to focus his novel on the female characters, and only made mild-mannered Doremus the protagonist because if you didn’t have a white male everyman protagonist in the 1930s your novel wouldn’t sell. All the most compelling characters are women.

This book continues to be a good but intense and anxious read. I keep finding myself wishing that it was from the point of view of Lorinda, the sharp-tongued widow with the fire of revolution in her heart, or Sissy, Doremus’s idealistic but practical 18yo daughter.

About halfway through this book, s**t got real. Fascism cranked up to 11!

This book is so unsettling. Almost prophetic.