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Francis Spufford: Cahokia Jazz (Hardcover, 2023, Faber & Faber) 5 stars

In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy …

No small accomplishment

5 stars

A tad overstuffed, but (because of this?) succeeds as (all of) hardboiled noir, speculative anthropology, and cathartic routing of white supremacy, which is no small accomplishment. Could have done with a more low-key ending, in my opinion, for some light and shade, but superb writing and characterisation throughout, with more than a few lines that elicited audibly-impressed noises. This alt-history nerd left happy.