Ship of Fools

by Katherine Anne Porter

a 1962 paperback published by Little, Brown and Company.

Porter saw a rise in popularity in 2020 because of her book, Pale Horse, Pale Rider on the 1918 pandemic and this novel is no less pertinent. Based on an actual voyage taken by Porter from Veracruz, Mexico to Germany in 1931, the book is a not so subtle allegory for the rise of facism.

497 pages