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07/06/2023 03:07 PM

Birnam Wood


By Eleanor Catton

Catton pulls off a near miracle. She takes seemingly all the buzzy issues of the day—environmentalism! tech surveillance! identity politics! billionaires!—and converts them into human action and consequence. It makes for a true thriller, relentlessly plotted, turning the screws not just on its characters but on all of us living in its world.

Nora, R.J. Julia Booksellers, Madison