"It was American. If she couldn´t be rich, she could at least possess some of what rich people did".
Some topics may not be of interest for me, unless magistrally written, but when I looked over the list of popular books this year Entitlement was on the top and although the match with the previous book by Alam was a match made in hell, I insisted to read it. (Full disclosure, I had the patience to watch the Netflix movie made after Leave the World Behind and was even worse than the book).
It is very popular to talk about money and entitlement in NYC (elections are coming, some candidates entitled themselves want to take away any entitlement etc.). A 30-something failed teacher, Brooke is becoming obsessed with a billionaire giving away his wealth. Black, adopted by a white family, she starts working for his foundation, turning into his main protegée.
She is lured by her own projections of wealth and success, through the mirrors of the people she is getting in contact through her assignments. Brooke is not poor, she is middle class, but being close to the super rich may push her to want more and more. A big house, that is her own. Expensive dinners, paid with the company card. Expensive bags. Dreams of becoming rich overnight, being entitled, even with the risk of defrauding.
It´s a false premise and a grotesque mise-en-scene. Brooke is representative only for herself and assuming that American dream is dreaming about money and possession, as a putrid capitalist nightmare is a wishful thinking for the sake of social-critique. It serves the discourse but disconsiders the reality. Plus, personally I am never impressed about anti-capitalist stances only for the sake of being in sync with great topics.
But what really annoyed me the most by this book was the writing as such. The thinking flow and the dialogues do not make any sense, any continuity and they are talking and thinking like robots in develpment stage.
I promise myself to give up this writer, no matter what literary recommendations may try to convince me otherwise.
Rating: 2 stars
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