This felt startlingly familiar at times, as if it’s a tale from our own impending future - the slow slide towards this society rather than something that happened all at once. I think this book was beautifully written, and I’m always a fan of books with dual past and present timelines both careening towards some defining moment. I’m surprised the average ratings on this book aren’t higher!! I picked it up because it was marked as a bookseller favorite at Fact and Fiction, so I didn’t pay attention to how it was rated on storygraph before I started. Also a good reminder that crowd sourced ratings for art may not always resonate!