Lisa Gardner is a bestselling author of murder mysteries, and her 3 most recent novels are about Frankie Elkin, a recovering alcoholic who has a hobby of investigating cold case disappearances. Frankie is the perfect neoliberal subject, addictive, with an inflated ego, and incapable of staying put. She’s happy to belong to a “group of vagabonds circling the globe, picking up jobs here, there, and everywhere, and the more they move around, the happier they are, especially in the company of other people from nowhere.”
Frankie destroys her marriage because stability terrifies her. She spends her life traipsing around the country, working for minimum wage, and telling everybody how superior this lifestyle is to a life of boring responsibilities that tie you down. She’s the perfect embodiment of “you’ll own nothing and will be happy.” When Frankie meets other minimum-wage nomads, they exchange their pronouns and make speeches about evil white people at each other.
There is an actual mystery in Still See You Everywhere but it’s not remotely as interesting as the state of mind of the people who think it’s a good idea to pollute even murder mysteries with this propaganda.
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