What a Time to Be Alive
The novel is propulsive because [of] Lola ... She is psychologically complex, straddling both beautiful sincerity and utter vapidity ... [Chang's] prose is infectiously funny, and her ability to satirize rich people paying silly amounts of money to be led to their souls has only sharpened.
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Witty...high-energy ... Pleasures of this book: its vividly detailed, completely-sold-on-it portrait of the city of Los Angeles, and the crush-worthy love interest Chang creates for Lola.
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Satire is hard, and writing a novel of manners intimately connected with social media is even harder, of course. Despite the novel’s faults, it’s a testament to the author’s skill that Lola stands out as a luminescent, compelling narrator who transforms into her own greatest champion. What a pity, however, that, like so much of social media in the 'real world,' the book doesn’t really have anything original to say.
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