Mania A Novel

Lionel Shriver

eBook - 2024

"A fantasy that hews uncomfortably close to today's reality, where facts and the truth are selectively recognized at increasingly subjective whims . . . . The specifics of Mania are the stuff of bleeding satire, but the novel's guiding concept cuts close to the bone with no anesthesia. Shriver isn't one to tip-toe around her subjects. She still knows how to poke the bear. In this case, the bear is us." — Boston GlobeSet in a parallel yet all too familiar near past, a brilliant subversive novel of social commentary about a lifelong friendship threatened by culture wars, from the New York Times bestselling author.In an alternate history version of 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace th...e sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb people is "the last great civil rights fight." Tests, grades, and... more