Book Note: Gods Without Men

Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru (2011)

This book really wants to push a lot of buttons.

There's the Native Indians and the American guilt over their slaughter, and the Iraqi war, and 9/11, and Arab immigrants in America, and the financial crisis, and the Englishman in America, and the Internet, and unhappy marriages, and religion, and dysfunctional families, and hippies.

This is also a science-fiction novel, and in this regard is just as generous: we have alien encounters and abductions, we have an AI influencing the world economy, we have wormhole travel, and we even have the Body Snatchers type of horror.

There's also lots of very good writing.