White Noise
by Don DeLillo
read: 2019
Time 100 Novels, Guardian 1000 Novels, National Book Award
White Noise is fundamentally concerned with the human fear of death. Jack Gladney is obsessed with it, and he finds his wife Babette—whom he had assumed was too full of everyday concerns to similarly obsess about it—feels the same. Despite Gladney's career success and the variety of situations with his blended family and many children, death is never far from his mind.
I kept waiting for Gladney's friend Murray Jay Siskind to emerge as some sort of passive-aggressive villain, but he never really did—or did he? He does advise Gladney that to kill is to act counter to death, which isn't really great advice.
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