I really liked The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead so I borrowed The Intuitionist. This novel is about Lila Mae Watson, the city's first black female elevator inspector. There are two factions in the city elevator inspectors. One group is the Intuitionists and the other group is the Empiricists who inspect every mechanism and go by the book. The Intuitionists go more by intuition. Lila has the highest accuracy rate of all the elevator inspectors. The book never says what city this is but it sure sounds like New York City. This is like an alternate universe where elevator inspector feuds and morality and discrimination and politics seem to be the most important things going on in town. This book might have been a little bit above my head which is why I enjoyed The Underground Railroad better.
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