It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

By StoryGolden1974

It Can’t Happen Here (1935) is basically about a made-up fascist takeover of the US, so it felt pretty on-the-nose for the era. I also found it way more grounded than a lot of dystopian stuff I’ve read, which I appreciated. I know it got loosely turned into that 1980s sci-fi miniseries V, too. After I finish a book, I usually check SparkNotes/Shmoop and similar sites to see if I missed anything, and I *thought* this one would have something… but nope. So now I’m kind of stuck wanting more discussion about it. Has anyone else read it?