An interesting story world looking at American life in an alternate history where Germany & Japan won the war. I’m glad that I read this to interrupt my consistent reading bias for recent fiction but I still felt like this classic left some things to be desired. What the book had in world building it lacked in any sort of relatable dialogue. There is also a lot of time dedicated to the book-within-the-book the oft banned “The Grasshopper Lies Heavy” which made sense in context of the plot but also describes an imagined alternate history which roughly follows our real life so that slowed things down a lot.

I understand and appreciate the place this novel has in the literary canon though I don’t know if I would recommend it too enthusiastically.