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Critics hailed Tom Rachman's smash debut and New York Times best owner, The Imperfectionists, as "spectacular" (New York Times), "superb" (The Plain Supplier), and "magnificent" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). Reviews for his second novel, The Rise and Fall season of Great Power, were no less rapturous, with the New York Times dialling it "ingenious". Now, in the shadows of the seismic switch in American politics, comes his well-timed and amusing new work. Basket of Deplorables requires an incisive and satirical look at the USA in the era of Trump data breaches, liberal self-righteousness, red-hat rancor, Starbucks macchiatos, Ultimate Fighting factories, and Internet sinkholes. Written for Audible and having a shifting array of disparate voices, the five intricately associated tales take listeners from an Election Nighttime get together in Manhattan to a funeral populated by artificial mourners in Lansing, Michigan, for an online date within an era when every email platform in the world has been hacked and, eventually, to a reality where the impossible, the unthinkable, becomes all too real. In Basket of Deplorables, Rachman has generated an immediate and deeply satisfying work that will continue steadily to concrete his place among the great literary stylists and ethnic observers in our time. "Tom Rachman's masterful collection has an early literary take a look at Trump-era America.... These bang-up-to-the-minute tales feel just like essential reading even as get to grips with a bizarre new era." (The Guardian) "Rachman's deft ethnic sources and his severe skewering of American culture lead to uncomfortably correct satire. (The Atlantic) "Hilariously funny and blackly despairing, often at exactly the same time." (The Sydney Day Herald) "These five associated stories reveal the same deft characterization, buoyant wit and imaginative richness of Rachman's lauded books The Imperfectionists and The Rise and Fall season of Great Power." (The Nighttime Standard)
