Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

 

I kinda thought this was going to be a narrative about a kinda weird online experience/interaction, but it turned out to be a very different kind of interesting book. Ms. Klein uses her Doppelganger experience to frame topics such as the political drift in the West (particularly the US) in the past decade-ish, Zionism, the autism spectrum (and healthcare more broadly) and several others. There are enough topics discussed that the book could feel disjointed, but Klein writes well enough that the segues come across as mostly natural, the tone of the book as mostly conversational--in spite of what is clearly a great deal of assorted research. There is a lot of political thinking in this that I've come across in other "further left than mainstream US Politics" writing, but someone who hasn't been exposed to that could do worse than to read this. Maybe someone else has written, or will write, the book I thought this was, and maybe eventually I'll read that; I have no regrets about reading this.