This has an unusually languid pace for dystopian fiction, parallelling a personal unravelling with a social collapse, and a journey across now impermeable borders with a journey to some kind of self acceptance. There is a lot to love here - literary allusions abound, satire often stings deliciously sharp and the worlds - especially the aura surrounding a superstar musician - are wonderfully described.
I did struggle with the pacing, especially towards the end of the book, when I started to lose interest in the journeys. But I suspect this is going to be one of those books that never quite lets me go, even if it wasnt always absorbing to read.