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Miriam Jacobs
Jan 25, 2016 rated it really liked it
A parable of tremendous imagination and compassion, The Orphan Master's Son should be required reading for American high school seniors for its potential to spark discussion of Fascism, variant realities, history, and the minute, lived details of systematic oppression. In the last third of the book, readers become a little frightened of the author's clear temptation to slip into comic-book stereotypes (Ayn-Rand heroics, campy dominatrices and gallows humor), but he veers back every time to his c ...more
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