A review by chirson
Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

5.0

I started reading the NetGalley ARC only to end up buying the paperback before I was halfway through. This is an urgent, important book of ideas, and while it may not be as earth-shatteringly eye-opening (at least for me!) as No Logo, or (particularly) Shock Doctrine, it is still smart and cohesive, making more sense of things as they are, and those things are uncanny and wrong. Klein uses the once-common confusion that made people mix her up with Naomi Wolf to talk about the alliance between various ostensibly non-fascist, ostensibly far-from-fascist groups and discourses with the far right - from crunchy parenting and tradwifing to wellness and pseudo-ecological groups, to (post)feminists and terfs, there are people for whom individualism and belief in their own supremacy (inherent or achieved, often located in the [detoxified] body) makes a movement to the right an appealing fit, and that's how precious time is lost that we should be using to save the planet. This book manages to be funny at times, personal and clever, and reading it is reassuring in a way - that you're not wrong to see this, and that the unexplainable redpilling is explainable, and even, maybe, that some could be brought back from the mirror world.

I really appreciated it, and I'm glad Klein keeps working hard to change and improve the world.