Play It As It Lays question

Democracy is also excellent

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welcome Feliks. would you like to comment on one her books?

I'll start with some comments on Democracy, which is less well-known than some of her other work. I came of age during the Vietnam War so it really hit home. I had to listen to it three or four times on Audible before I started to really get it.
One of the hardest hitting sections is where Inez and Lovett are in a hotel somewhere in Asia, maybe Manila, and all night he talks obsessively about people trying to get out of South Vietnam before the Americans pull out and the country collapses. Then Inez returns home and finds out that her son is organizing some kind of vigil in favor of the Viet Cong. No comment by Inez or the narrator is needed.