The book opens with a daughter: In the prologue, set in the financially precarious year of 2009, 9-year-old Story Burr-Nadir sings a stirring rendition of the national anthem during a school recital in Brooklyn. In his sixth novel, “Anthem,” Noah Hawley taps into our existential anxiety - and transforms it into a hefty page-turner that’s equal parts horrific, catastrophic and, at times, strangely entertaining.
How do we bring children up in today’s increasingly dangerous and divided world? Will they rise? Or will they fall? With the recent rash of articles about the fragility of adolescent mental health and America’s uptick in teenage suicide rates, these questions are urgent.
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