Inheritors | Asako Serizawa

My review of Asako Serizawa’s Inheritors ran today at WBUR’s The ARTery.

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From my review of Asako Serizawa’s INHERITORS, which ran today @wburartery: “Throughout the book, Serizawa introduces meditations on communism, capitalism, nationalism, imperialism, democracy and the deep-seated hypocrisies that fuel inequality, exploitation and conflict around the world. These threads, though often invisible to the characters, nonetheless bind and constrict them, forcing them into choices they believe they are adopting of their own free will. And this seems to be Serizawa’s point: That we inherit more than just our genes and our habits from our forebears. We inherit the whole world they created, and it comes to us with strings attached.” . . . #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookreview #asakoserizawa #inheritors #bookcover #bookreviewer #bookblog #bookblogger #bookobsessed #bookaddict #halfgods #akilkumarasamy #shortstories #literaryfiction #igreads #readersofinstagram

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