Review: The Plot Against America

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I picked up this book along with many others by Philip Roth from the side of our apartment - someone disposing of a bunch of old books, I guess. This was the only one that I kept, though I read all the others.

I first read this shortly after the 2016 election, which was an uncanny time to be reading this book. I had no idea what this book was about, but the similarities were so uncanny then, and continue to be now.

Besides that, though, I guess I'm not really a fan of Roth's style of novel. I've read American Pastoral, Portnoy's Complaint, and Goodbye, Columbus, which all came from that same stack of old books, but I really couldn't get into any of them, and I think the only reason why I keep this one around is because of the parallels to the situation today. It's pretty dense and verbose with long backstories to support a single punchline that doesn't really contribute much.

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