The books that stuck out to me from this week's New York Times Book Review all deal with some segment of "American extremism:"
Fiction
Netherland - Joseph O'Neill; "a New York Times Best Book of the Year; the novel that President Obama is now reading"
Shanghai Girls - Lisa See; "As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, sisters Pearl and May set out on a complex journey from the Chinese countryside to a new life in Los Angeles. There they struggle to find love in arranged marriages, brush against the seduction of Hollywood, and strive to embrace American life even as they fight against discrimination and hold fast to who they are."
Nonfiction
An Inconvenient Book - Glenn Beck; "The conservative talk-show host on "the world's biggest problems"
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto - Michael Pollan; "Most of what we're consuming today is no longer, strictly speaking, food at all, and how we're consuming it . . . is not really eating," in this witty attack on what he calls "nutritionism." His advice is: "Eat food. Not much. Mostly plants."
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