American Spy is a difficult book to pull off. A slow burn literary spy novel in which the concept of subterfuge is used symbolically to examine race, gender, immigration and the long reach of colonialism. The book has a lot of heavy lifting to do. Fortunately, it’s in the hands of a capable writer Lauren Wilkinson knows what she’s doing. The strength of it is in its primary character. Marie Mitchell is a complex person and Wilkinson allows her to be complex while trusting the reader […]