Powerful and political

In Woebegone's Warehouse of Words, Payal Kapadia builds a dystopian, allegorical world that will make you uncomfortable from the get-go. Facets like closely-monitored citizens, the Supreme Leader with grand promises, a section of society providing coerced labour and living in squalid conditions, widespread censorship and inflation will end up making the reader wonder if it is an alternative fantasy at all. That is what makes the book so powerfully political.