I don’t know if you should read Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song. I mean you really should because it’s some of the most beautiful writing I’ve read in recent memory. And you should because the dystopian near future (or present depending on where you live) of far right government arbitrary detention and state sponsored murder and denial of rights and limitations on movement and futile attempts to escape matters. And you should because the yearning of a mother to protect her children and maintain their innocence (and life) echoes for days. But goddddd is it depressing. So you know, make your own choices, but this one is really, really good.
Literary Vice 