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Linked
Narrated by:
Cassandra Morris, Christopher Gebauer, Maxwell Glick, Sandy Rustin, Mark Sanderlin, Preston Butler III
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Gordon Korman
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An unforgettable novel from the New York Times best-selling Gordon Korman.
Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika.
Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing?
Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's the only Jewish girl in the whole town, everyone's treating her more like an outsider than ever.
The mystery deepens as more swastikas begin to appear. Some students decide to fight back and start a project to bring people together instead of dividing them further. The closer Link, Michael, and Dana get to the truth, the more there is to face - not just the crimes of the present, but the crimes of the past.
With Linked, Gordon Korman, the author of the acclaimed novel Restart, poses a mystery for all listeners where the who-did-it isn't nearly as important as the why.
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Indeed, the ending of this novel completely killed any good will that I originally had towards it. With the disgustingly saccharine "It's A Wonderful Life" style ending in which the entire town gathered to be there for the wrong-doer's repentance and redemption making me feel genuinely nauseous as I rolled my eyes as far back as they would go!
And then, there's the Klu Klux Klan of it all. With the massive, cross burning rally held in 1978 being constantly connected back to this new rash of hate symbols, but never once explored in any depth or detail. And why?... Because exploring anti-black racism or even hearing a single black character speak about it would mean skirting dangerously close to acknowledging the systemic, institutionalised racism which is the foundation of American society to this day. And as I mentioned before, Moderate, Liberal Centrists will only ever acknowledge 'Past' atrocities and forms of oppression. A mindset which results in Gordon Korman and countless others practically fetishizing the Shoah. Because in their minds, it's the perfect example of bad people in the past doing bad things which can in no way be connected to the systemic, institutionalised racism of Americans living today.
In fact, to finish this review by copy/pasting my initial impression of the first six chapters...
Listening to this audiobook in October of 2025, when Fascism has seized full control of the U.S. and India. several South American countries and is on the rise throughout Europe, (including here in the U.K,) it's difficult to imagine, let alone remember a time when the Swastika was a universal symbol of terror which would hit a small, predominantly white, rural, American town almost as hard as 9/11. Because in the 10 years since the Orange Man Baby rode down that escalator to get back at the black man who'd once made fun of him at the Whitehouse Correspondent's Dinner, the Swastika has been actively defended and even proudly waved at public rallies by his supporters while white cops defend and protect them. Many of those same Trump supporters were waving Swastika flags and wearing "Six Million Were Not Enough" & "Auschwitz: Staff" T-shirts on January 6th. And now, the regime has declared that #Antifa (which is literally short for "Anti-Fascist") and anyone else to the left of Reagan are all terrorists and the 'Real' Fascists.
Indeed, the one thing that the last 10 years has proven in spades is that the Nazis were never as condemned and reviled as 85 years of Hollywood Propaganda and white, Liberal "Whataboutisms" would have us believe. That on the contrary, to quote the lyrics of a song which sums this up to a tee, "Battalions Of Fascists Still Dream Of A Master Race." So I can't help feeling that this novel is set in a hopelessly naïve and idealistic 'Fantasy World' in which America isn't defined by and founded upon White Supremacy. One in which people wouldn't literally vote for a Fascist Demagogue because the icky black woman was too 'Uppity' and the price of eggs was too high.
...And Then Everybody Clapped.
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