Before the Decade Ends, Here Are the Best Novels of the 21st Century

The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (2013)

It’s the 1970s, and Reno is traveling to New York with the intention to turn her fixation with speed and motorcycles into art. Reno arrives just in time for an explosion of radical politics, activism, and civil dissent.

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