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The People's City by Alexander McCall Smith, Anne Hamilton, Nadine Aisha Jassat, Ian Rankin
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emotional
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
medium-paced
4.0
A perfect read while in Edinburgh this summer.
This short anthology of 5 stories explores everyday lives of folks living in Edinburgh across various (recent) time points. Each story brought something new to my (limited) understanding of the city and its culture, and so I learned a lot about how these authors view Edinburgh.
I think one of my favourites was Nadine Aisha Jassat's as it was set mostly in Leith, right near where I was staying actually. But honestly I enjoyed each one - they were all so different. And two of the stories had LGBTQ+ characters, which was an unexpected delight! (I will note that one of the stories has a trans character, who meets again many years later with our POV character. So there's some accidental deadnaming and in flashbacks to the past, her birth pronouns/name are used. In my opinion, it was handled well, but I'm not trans.)
Definitely recommend if you're looking for a sampling of stories set in Edinburgh.
This short anthology of 5 stories explores everyday lives of folks living in Edinburgh across various (recent) time points. Each story brought something new to my (limited) understanding of the city and its culture, and so I learned a lot about how these authors view Edinburgh.
I think one of my favourites was Nadine Aisha Jassat's as it was set mostly in Leith, right near where I was staying actually. But honestly I enjoyed each one - they were all so different. And two of the stories had LGBTQ+ characters, which was an unexpected delight! (I will note that one of the stories has a trans character, who meets again many years later with our POV character. So there's some accidental deadnaming and in flashbacks to the past, her birth pronouns/name are used. In my opinion, it was handled well, but I'm not trans.)
Definitely recommend if you're looking for a sampling of stories set in Edinburgh.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Deadnaming and Religious bigotry
Minor: Murder and Confinement
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