Book Notes: A Better Life by Lionel Shriver

Hot on the heels of Edward McLaren’s Bothelford’s Gone, here’s another right-wing novel about the destruction of the Western civilization through mass migration.

A fussy liberal lady in NYC takes in a Honduran migrant to assert her leftist virtue to a right-wing pundit ex-husband and an anti-immigrant incel son. The migrant moves a bunch of gangsters into the Boomer activist’s expensive house and gives her a taste of reality. What follows is a domination ritual which the well-meaning and naive liberal lady brought upon herself because of her wide-eyed naiveté of a lefty do-gooder.

Shriver mocks Boomer cluelessness viciously. Zoomer helplessness gets its fair share of mockery as well. She’s not a great artist but you don’t need to try hard to portray the toxic empathy of women who use saccharine racial justice projects to plaster over the failures of their ruined marriages.

The rejection of leftism has gone mainstream, my friends. This is excellent news. Please read the novel and recommend it to others. A Better Life should be a movie or a TV series but there needs to be a production company that won’t weasel off and turn Honduran gangsters into evil Germans or Brits.

2 thoughts on “Book Notes: A Better Life by Lionel Shriver

  1. “should be a movie or a TV series but there needs to be a production company that won’t weasel off and turn Honduran gangsters into evil Germans or Brits”

    I would almost like to see how they would manage that….

    Amahin, a hardworking upstanding “undocumented” Filipina immigrant who not only works three jobs but volunteers at a homeless shelter hears about a right wing coup leading to multiple crises in….. let’s say Bolivia and opens up her home for a refugee.

    But instead of Gustavo, the ‘refugee’ turns out to be Devlin, an Irish backpacker who in the confusion of the coup escaped from the truck in which he was being taken to jail (for exploiting noble Quechua indians) and passed himself off a refugee. Eventually his dark secret is uncovered, that he doesn’t want to return to Ireland because he’s wanted for the police for…. wait for it…. sexually assaulting an African refugee!

    Now poor Amahin is in danger! Fortunately a muslim policeman (himself a former refugee) saves her in the nick of time….

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