Since the 2016 election cycle shifted into full gear, I’ve had a hard time reading. There aren’t very many books that can compete with all the bizarre plot twists we’ve been living through. In real life, you also don’t have the comfort of being able to flip ahead to the last page to see how it all worked out.
There isn’t much fiction about Watergate, but I’m avoiding all that, too. It would just make me too hopeful. History never repeats itself that exactly. The Handmaid’s Tale filled me with terror and rage, even though, like most dystopian fiction that was popular earlier this year, it probably won’t happen.
This is what consent looks like! I thought. This is how life should be! Even in the most compromising circumstances, no one should ever assume. Even if I remember nothing else about the book in a few years, I’ll remember that.
