{"id":258035,"date":"2024-09-02T10:26:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T10:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/02\/creation-lake-review-rachel-kushners-blend-of-spy-caper-and-climate-fiction-is-top-notch\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:11:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:11:37","slug":"creation-lake-review-rachel-kushners-blend-of-spy-caper-and-climate-fiction-is-top-notch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/02\/creation-lake-review-rachel-kushners-blend-of-spy-caper-and-climate-fiction-is-top-notch\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation Lake review: Rachel Kushner&#8217;s blend of spy caper and climate fiction is top-notch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"ArticleImage\">\n<div class=\"Image__Wrapper\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" width=\"1350\" height=\"900\" alt=\"2CC11R0 France, Gironde, center of l'Entre-deux-Mers, bastide of Sauveterre-de-Guyenne (13th century) (Saint James way), semi aerial view with the bell tower\" src=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1288px) 837px, (min-width: 1024px) calc(57.5vw + 55px), (min-width: 415px) calc(100vw - 40px), calc(70vw + 74px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=300 300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=400 400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=500 500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=600 600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=700 700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=800 800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=837 837w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=900 900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=1003 1003w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=1100 1100w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=1300 1300w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=1400 1400w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=1500 1500w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=1600 1600w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=1674 1674w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=1700 1700w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=1800 1800w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=1900 1900w, https:\/\/images.newscientist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/23122607\/SEI_218122418.jpg?width=2006 2006w\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-image-context=\"Article\" data-image-id=\"2445142\" data-caption=\"The action in Creation Lake is based in Guyenne in south-west France\" data-credit=\"Photononstop\/Alamy\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">The action in Creation Lake is based in Guyenne in south-west France<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">Photononstop\/Alamy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguin.co.uk\/books\/439602\/creation-lake-by-kushner-rachel\/9781787331747\">Creation Lake<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/><strong>Rachel Kushner (Jonathan Cape (UK, 5 September); Scribner (US, 3 September))<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Creation Lake <\/i>by Rachel Kushner is a thriller, a spy caper, a comedy and also a poetic take on human history all the way back to the time our species, <i>Homo sapiens<\/i>, shared Earth with the Neanderthals. It is a sensationally enjoyable novel and has deservedly made the Booker prize longlist.<\/p>\n<p>The story is narrated by our anti-hero, Sadie Smith (not her real name). She is a US undercover operative working for shady employers\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg26335060-700-this-blend-of-spy-caper-and-climate-fiction-is-top-notch\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=home\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The action in Creation Lake is based in Guyenne in south-west France Photononstop\/Alamy Creation LakeRachel Kushner (Jonathan Cape (UK, 5 September); Scribner (US, 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":258036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258035"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}