A review by sausome
Turbulence by David Szalay

4.0

Partly short story, partly connected vignettes (think "Winesburg, Ohio"), this book is an interesting tale of different lives, connected by necessity of flights from different cities across the world. It took me a bit to feel connected to this book, but once I got into it, the book flew by. The lives cut across class, circumstance, culture, gender, etc. A fascinating kind of zoom-in on people. One gets the sense that you are learning about the private lives of people that you might only consider as a bystander on Earth, looking up at a passing airplane, wondering who might be on board and where they might be coming from. Fascinating device!