Book Review Tiny Threads By Lilliam Rivera Del Rey Books: 256 pages, $26 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. “Although the Vernon I write about in this book is purely fictional,” Rivera writes, “factories have been poisoning brown communities for decades, while powerful men believe …
You see, it has been suggested that while capital is the God Almighty in our world, there are also various privileged realms ruled by other gods. Finally, all these little gods have to kowtow to the One Almighty God of Capital in our world, or the One God’s talibans and rakshaks of bankers, day traders, CEOs and politicians would come …