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christine_queenofbooks 's review for:
The Colossus of New York
by Colson Whitehead
I'm not too sure if this book cracked my heart open, or if my heart was already cracked open and it simply slipped on in to fill the empty spaces.
I miss NYC dearly - more than I expected to - and Whitehead so well captures various bits of the city in this essay collection. I'd read an excerpt from the opening essay before, about how "You start building your private New York the first time you lay eyes on it." (Love that idea.) From there he goes on to describe the Port Authority, city sidewalks in the rain, the subway, walking down Broadway, Coney Island, rush hour, and more.
This isn't a romanticization of the city, rather, it's an enscapulation of what so many of us have experienced. Definitely the sort of book I'll reread.
CW: passing references to jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge and shooting a Broadway star at the stage door
I miss NYC dearly - more than I expected to - and Whitehead so well captures various bits of the city in this essay collection. I'd read an excerpt from the opening essay before, about how "You start building your private New York the first time you lay eyes on it." (Love that idea.) From there he goes on to describe the Port Authority, city sidewalks in the rain, the subway, walking down Broadway, Coney Island, rush hour, and more.
This isn't a romanticization of the city, rather, it's an enscapulation of what so many of us have experienced. Definitely the sort of book I'll reread.
CW: passing references to jumping off the Brooklyn Bridge and shooting a Broadway star at the stage door