Lionel Shriver’s Splendidly Paced Immigration Satire
A Better Life, by Lionel Shriver (Harper, 304 pp., $30) No one reads a Lionel Shriver novel anticipating a cheerful ending, and her newest, A Better Life, is not going to disillusion readers on this respect. An professional within the depiction and skewering of middle-class self-importance, Shriver is cruel in analyzing dainty liberal ideas, then…