A professor of Hitler Studies and his family navigate American consumer culture, a toxic cloud event, and the fear of death -- in that order.
About This Book
Jack Gladney, a professor of Nazi history at a Middle American liberal arts school, and his family try to handle normal family life as a black cloud of lethal gaseous fumes threatens their town. Reprint.
Who This Is For
Best for readers who want genuine wit: sharp, clever writing that earns its laughs. This is a book that asks something of you. Dense, layered, and best read slowly. It takes its time, and that's the point. Patience is rewarded. If you need emotional weight in your reading, the lightness here may frustrate.
Best Read When
Best read when you're in the mood for something funny and clever, and a read that's slow and deeply immersive.
What It Explores
White Noise explores identity and the gap between who we are and who we pretend to be, family in all its complexity — inherited and chosen, survival and what extreme circumstances ask of people, and power structures and how they shape individual lives.
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