Dante's Indiana

This book was a fascinating and comedically wild ride. It includes an unemployed professor fighting to save his marriage, a middle-America town embattled over opioid addiction, cancel culture, and racial justice, some discussion of Italian Catholic theology [I loved that one minor character, a persn......more

"'Charlie, what's a Dante theme park?' 'Well sure, everybody has that question'" '... a cross between Disney World and a Biblical theme park'" (79). "'Inferno will open on Halloween, and Paradiso twenty-four hours later.' 'What about Purgatory?' 'Fair ball. Look, there were only two vacant arenas, and, w......more

I like it. It's funny, realistic in a crazy way, and ultimately encouraging.......more

I noticed that I never reviewed Original Prin either (the first book in the trilogy), so I will roll both up into one review: First, I hardly EVER laugh out loud when reading anymore, and both books got me laughing. The humor, I think, originates mostly in the fearlessness of the author. There are ma......more

A very well written satire which manages to shoe-horn in the opiate crisis, police shootings, late capitalism, Netflix and social media, marital problems, Catholicism and religious belief generally in present day America as well as, obviously, lots of Dante, into an inconsequential story. Why not a......more