A review by cmadrenas
The Chairs Are Where the People Go: How to Live, Work, and Play in the City by Sheila Heti, Misha Glouberman

3.0

Cutesy, twee, enjoyable enough. Full of really good communication excercises if you have to do icebreakers at your job... A bit awful at times, though (for instance, “a kind of racism that was invisible to all of us”?!?). I wouldn’t recommend it to average adults because it has the Miranda July curse of feeling like a young-white-rich-kids-only club where for reasons you just can’t put your finger on you feel like you don’t belong, while reading it. But I think it’d be a decent graduation gift for a high schooler, and I’d recommend it to highschool teachers, too. With the reminder to be really, really critical and take absolutely nothing seriously.