Kanan gets a new job as the brown bag guy and in true Kanan fashion, he fumbles the bag, literally and figuratively on his first day.
While headed to the bodega he and Famous get robbed by the neighborhood stickup kids. They are attracted to Famou chain which was not even real) but successfully get away with grabbing Kanans bag, which has Raq profits inside. This is a big fuckup so Kanan needs to figure out how to get his mothers money back. One small problem: Famous does not have a knife in his kitchen, and neither one has a gun. So they head next door to Corinnes Josephine Lawrence but she has more questions than knives.
Lion Feuchtwangers 1933 novel The Oppermanns which is being rereleased this month with a revised translation of James Cleugh’s original by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Joshua Cohen, is one of those books. Its been nearly 90 years since its publication, but reading it now is like staring into the worst of next week. Its all there: The ways in which a country can lose its grip on the truth. The ways in which tribalism referred to in “The Oppermanns as anthropological and zoological nonsense is easily roused to demonize others. The ways in which warring factions can be abetted by the media and accepted by a credulous populace.
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