A darkly funny romp through the DC housing market starring blackmail, murder, and the best fictional example of “gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss”. Margo, our protagonist, has found the perfect suburban Maryland house to buy to cap her perfect life, and she won’t let anyone outbid her on the open market. It’s a simple premise: how far would you go to secure your dream home? Even though Kashino doesn’t address many of the social ills Margo spots throughout the course of the novel, the premise – a millenial deals with the housing crisis by having a mental breakdown – maintains a high enough level of social satire to keep me rooting for our villainess till the end.
I don’t have more to add about the book itself, but I will include a short article about housing prices in the Essays section!
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