A Hologram for the King

SIGH. I mean I probably wouldn't have picked this up at all if it hadn't been written by Dave Eggers, who I LOVE. But I always forget that I prefer his memoirs and books based more directly on true stories (Zeitoun, What is the What) to his straight-up fiction. Like pieces of this were obviously based on reality.

I guess ultimately Eggers's project with this is to humanize the upper class white dudes who sent factories overseas but maybe I'm not that interested in that project, which is a moral failing on my part I suppose.

Of course it is well written, of course it is beautiful, but ultimately I just did not care super much about Alan and his family. OH WELLZ