A.M. Homes’s first novel in a decade is a somewhat playful attempt to explain America’s fractious politics. It falls short
2009, a black man named Barack Hussein Obama has just become president, and a group of successful, white American men—“conservatives of a certain age with an extra decimal point or two in the bank”—are drinking fine wine, eating Chateaubriand and hatching a plan to “reclaim” the country they love.
Summoned by a rich Republican donor called “the Big Guy”, these men come together in the days and weeks after the election in 2008 to shoot guns, recite bromides and confect a future of unrest so profound that Americans decide to back “rogue non-politicians”. As a doctor in the group explains: “Sometimes you have to rebreak a bone to set it right. That’s what we’re doing.”
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