BOOKS FOR THE 99%: NOVEL
LUMINOUS AIRPLANES | PAUL LAFARGE | FSG | $25 |This excellent novel - from the author of Haussmann, or the Distinction - engages our current economic mess on a number of platforms. The protagonist, a programmer in San Francisco at the turn of the millennium, both benefits from and is victimized by the knowledge economy. His deceased grandfather, whose upstate New York house he's tasked with cleaning out, was obsessed with ridding his sleepy town of developers. And his love interest, a poet, is driven mad by the clash of Eastern and Western mores, a conflict brought about by economic necessity.
