A review by kmg365
Wakefield by Andrei Codrescu

2.0

I'm almost at the halfway point of the audio version, and if something doesn't change my mind in the time it takes me to drive to work in the morning, I'm giving up. The writing comes across to me as intensely male, in a way that makes me feel I could never hope to understand anything that happens inside an XY brain. This book is trying hard to convince me that approximately 70% of U.S. residents have thick Eastern European accents. Perhaps that's true, and I'm simply not talking to the right people. It's also trying to convince me that 90% of all conversations in the U.S. are about art, money, philosophy, ethnicity, architecture, and various amalgams of all of the above. That I can't buy.