Tim O'Brien, author of the great novel 'The Things They Carried,' explains how Covid and Trump spawned 'America Fantastica,' his first novel in 20 years.
“Mythomania — or plain old lying — infiltrated churches, schools, hair salons, corporate boardrooms, courtrooms, and nightclubs.” So Tim O’Brien describes the state of things in “America Fantastica,” the renowned author’s first novel in more than two decades.
A lot of the characters in the book are absolutely terrible people, but at the same time you often end up feeling bad for them because they’ve gotten so caught up in all of it. Probably the dominant theme of the book is that quote from Yeats — “we had fed the heart on fantasies, the heart’s grown brutal from the fare.” And it's not just political.
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