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Violence
Some
Political violence and anti-Semitic persecution as the novel escalates
Language
Some
Some strong language in the adult literary fiction register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Minimal sexual content
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The psychological horror of watching your country systematically turn against you — and the way ordinary people accommodate and resist — is the novel's central dread
What this book is about
Philip Roth's alternate history imagines a 1940 America in which aviator Charles Lindbergh defeats FDR and signs a peace treaty with Hitler. Seen through the eyes of a young Philip Roth in Newark, the novel is both a political thriller and a family drama about what happens to Jewish-Americans in a country turning against them. Roth writes the creeping normalization of anti-Semitism with terrifying plausibility. Adult in content and deeply serious in subject.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
Anti-Semitism and fascism as central subject
Alternate history of American fascism
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