Ebola is terrifying Middle America not just because it is often fatal, but also because it is foreign, African, and Other. I finished this one a couple of hours ago and immediately started the second in the America Trilogy. I really enjoyed that it was written from different perspectives and different leanings, but am a little sad that once again, a truly genuine person of faith wasn't represented.

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A mosaic of seven regular townsfolk are going about their days, blissfully unaware their lives are about to interweave, interchange and interact; entangling into such a messy web that, together — and unbeknownst to them — their lives end up changing the face of America forevermore.Even the small town location of Lebanon, Kansas feels like almost a character in itself and there really is a monument there marking the very centre of America.

One of the characters is a recent immigrant from Ireland and she has a unique perspective on the USA. By the Reagan ’80s and the Clinton ’90s, as economic prosperity helped cloister Middle America from the tragic fallout of epidemics like AIDS and crack, erotic thrillers from Body Heat to Cruising needled the collective subconscious about infidelity, queerness, female empowerment. Especially once I finished it, once discovered how the various characters — each a narrator — come together in one tumultuous ending, I had to acknowledge that it does have a plot. There is a big clue towards the end that her storyline is not as straightforward as we were led to believe. A female consumer actively balances value and meaning, rewarding brands that reflect her core beliefs.The last two criticisms, put together, make this book guilty of being both sanctimonious and contrived. These common demographic descriptions are still useful, but this supergroup is not defined by mere statistics, by education, class, household income , location look-alikes, politics, or behavior. This core value may include various types of self-actualization, yoga, meditation, mindfulness, health and wellness. Running along the lives of these characters, to whom we are a fly on the wall, is the story of Sarah Jane Zdanski, a local journalist now head hunted by one of the large networks to host a new show of important interviews, but just who she is interviewing is a mystery, to the nation and the reader; all we know is that it is drawing in big viewer numbers and will change her career. Nothing of note really happens, but the undertone of something about to happen threads throughout the novel.