{"id":3353,"date":"2025-06-21T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2025-06-21T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T03:46:07","slug":"review-creation-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3353","title":{"rendered":"Review: Creation Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I really enjoyed Rachel Kushner&#8217;s <em>Creation Lake<\/em>, but I feel like that says some bad things about me.  I quite enjoyed hanging out with her antihero protagonist while watching her do things I despise.  And this wasn&#8217;t the transgressive joy of watching a villain revel in getting back at the system or flaunting convention.  She&#8217;s just going with the flow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&#8217;s a lot to chew on there.  Nothing about the flow, or going with it, felt unreasonable.  It doesn&#8217;t say much good about the world we live in and the people we are.  I find myself with a lot of questions about the guilty pleasure of rooting for someone I should oppose in the abstract.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would be easy to blame Kushner&#8217;s writing.  It&#8217;s charming, witty, insightful, and completely believable.  It would be hard not to be on her side.  But I still think I shouldn&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really enjoyed Rachel Kushner&#8217;s Creation Lake, but I feel like that says some bad things about me. I quite enjoyed hanging out with her antihero protagonist while watching her do things I despise. And this wasn&#8217;t the transgressive joy of watching a villain revel in getting back at the system or flaunting convention. She&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3354,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}