5/21/2023 0 Comments The Mandibles by Lionel Shriver![]() When that too becomes untenable, the family is forced to turn to Florence’s younger brother Jarred, whose once ridiculous farm in upstate New York (“he’s taken a survivalist turn,” his sister Avery says) suddenly looks pretty good.Īnd why do things work - until they don’t? Florence’s brother-in-law Lowell, an economics professor at Georgetown (but not for long!), explains, “Because all value is subjective, money is worth what people feel it’s worth. ![]() But at least she owns her home in Flatbush, and when all the others lose theirs, she takes them in. Willing’s mother Florence, for instance, is a single mother living with a “Lat” (2029 slang for Latino, now the dominant population) and working at a shelter. ![]() … What was astonishing was anything that worked as intended, for any duration whatsoever.” It is 2029, and Willing is of the latest generation of Mandibles, a family of inherited wealth whose least successful members prove the most resourceful when disaster strikes. ![]() At the first hint of the coming economic apocalypse, 13-year-old Willing reflects that “there was nothing astonishing about things not working, about things falling apart. ![]()
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