Finished reading: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner 📚

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ this was incredible. The characters, the world building, the way that Kushner weaves the history of Neanderthals and homo sapiens into a story about inherited, adopted, and chosen personal, regional, and political identities, values, and loyalties was magnificent. And the prose… wow. Does a book about an agent provocateur have any right to be so intricately, empathetically, and beautifully written? I think this one is going to stay with me for a while.