Fever dream This satirical portrait of Republican plots in the wake of Obama’s election is a novel caught between two eras
Sep 09, 2022
3 minutes
By Xan Brooks
FICTION
ne voter’s dream is another’s night-mare, especially in the fevered, tribal world of 21st-century US politics, where the House is divided and the red states and blue states pull in opposing directions. As AM Homes’s seventh novel opens, it’s 4 November 2008, and Barack Hussein Obama has just been confirmed as the nation’s 44th president. Inside the Biltmore hotel in Phoenix, Arizona, the Republican high command is in a state of full-body recoil. Its members are doubled over and sobbing, vomiting on
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