The Delusions by Jenni Fagan review – an afterlife of queues and bureaucracy | Books
Jenni Fagan’s satirical fifth novel, The Delusions, opens with an epigraph from the Kurt Vonnegut-inspired science fiction curiosity Venus on the Half-Shell by Philip José Farmer. “The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.” The afterthought leaks again into the unique assertion, underpinning and undermining every thing. Infinity and eternity are each unavoidably current in…