A Highly Unlikely Scenario, or a Neetsa Pizza Employee’s Guide to Saving the World by Rachel Cantor
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Loved it, loved every single mystical second of it. I had to stop folding down corners of pages I loved because I’d folded nearly every page down. I love the Neo-Maoist book group/rebel fighters. I loved the wise man Abulafia and his almost petulant demands for his aleph towards the end.
Leonard sort of bumbles along this romp in the future in which the world is ruled by fast food franchises, but Rachel Cantor writes so snappily that you enjoy being in his company as his world is turned upside down by a call from the distant past.
I feel like I would have been happy to read this book forever, had Ms. Cantor kept going, I was so disappointed that the book had ended.
I can imagine people getting frustrated with the book, as it might seem a bit self-indulgent, staring down the old belly button, but, I don’t know, I enjoyed the trips back to the 13th century, Marco Polo, Roger Bacon, and the crowd. But I felt the future world in which the book is set was pretty well-realized and that she didn’t need to explain things in great detail: she gives the reader some credit to make those leaps, and sometimes the leaps land nowhere in particular, maybe like an adult coloring book, letting you fill in your own colors, within the lines or without.