A review by bleonard
Boca Raton by Lauren Groff

5.0

I was surprised by this one. Like "The Way The World Ends," it's set in the present day, or close enough to it, but Groff takes an almost entirely interior approach to the story, focusing on one protagonist and their inner thoughts. The tension here builds wonderfully, with Groff's haunting prose employed very effectively. It doesn't end the way you'd think, and I liked the connection to past visions of apocalypse/apocalyptic cults. Thematically, it was very evocative of Paul Kingsnorth and the concept of "uncivilization," or finding out how to mourn for a world that has already been lost. I recommend it.