Crudo by Olivia Laing
Take a plunge into a story of love and hate with this summer’s beach book. As a writer, Kathy. Kathy is tying the knot. In the summer of 2017, everything is breaking down. Kathy spends the first summer of her forties attempting to get used to making a permanent commitment while Trump tweets the world into nuclear war, from a Tuscan hotel for the super-rich to a Brexit-paralyzed UK. But Kathy isn’t the only one who is evolving. Landscapes on the political, social, and environmental levels are all at risk. The world is becoming hotter, fascism is on the increase, and the truth is dead. Is learning to love really worthwhile when the end of the world is near?
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And how do you create art, much less a life, when one careless tweet could put everything in danger? In a clever, humorous, and unabashedly real depiction of love in the post-apocalyptic world, Olivia Laing completely rewires the book. A commitment-phobic artist who may or may not be Kathy Acker, Crudo charts in real-time what it was like to live and love during the terrifying summer of 2017 from the perspective of a Goodbye to Berlin for the twenty-first century.
The most significant and extraordinary book is “Crudo” by Olivia Laing. What a profound, intellectual, and thought-provoking reflection on the wonderful, horrifying, modern world in which we live. It begins with an emphatic and repeated first-person proclamation.
