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I forgot to review this one when I finished it a month ago! I really enjoyed this book. It definitely won't be for everyone. It's a bit of a weird mish-mash of spy thriller (but not your conventional genre-y page-turner), literary fiction, and philosophical musing on humanity. But that's exactly what I loved about it!

The narrative voice is so strong; 'Sadie Smith' our pseudonymous main character is independent, cool, hard to read, and definitely unlikeable at times. Think Ottessa Moshfegh if she had written Birnam Wood. And there's a lot of talk about Neanderthals, so there's that.

Glad this one got put on the Booker shortlist to make me prioritize it! The same thing happened many years ago with Kushner's The Mars Room which I also greatly enjoyed. Guess I gotta read more Kushner now!