MixedThe Star TribuneIt’s hard to tell if Dave Eggers, one of the most important literary figures in the world, is telling a parable with his new novel The Parade or whether he is performing a bit of sleight of hand, trying to make fools of his readers ... it becomes impossible to like either [main] character, which can make for a slog when it comes to storytelling ... By the time his story abruptly ends, Eggers has presented a basic philosophical conundrum: How can we help what we cannot understand? Global history has answered that question a thousand times over. The bones and the blood are buried in our soil, just waiting to be paved over.
