Ali Smith’s post-Brexit, Booker-shortlisted Autumn was a superb look at both a loving relationship and a country in flux. It was eviscerating about Britain in 2017, a country in the midst of an identity crisis, ruled by an amoral, indifferent Conservative Party, where doors are smeared with the words ‘Go Home’, where funding to universities is slashed, and where dismissive, dead-eyed officiousness rules. “When the state is not kind,” Smith wrote, “the people are fodder.”
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