A review by absalomabsalom
Virtually Yours by Sarvenaz Tash

2.0

This book kind of sucks and also has a weird vein of pro-Stern business school anti-Tisch school of the arts sentiment... and i was shocked upon turning to the last digital page to learn the author attended NYU Tisch for film and television... In fact the book makes it seem like she didn't attend NYU at all, because of how falsely it is written about; it is in an odd uncomfortable space between romanticization of New York City and "true" depiction of New York City where Tash positions herself as above the romanticization and offering us a "true" "realistic" experience of what the city is like, of what attending NYU is like, but still not even heading towards actual truth... I would prefer the romanticization to either genuine truth or Tash's version of truth because this kind of book needs that sort of unpunctured dream. But it did not have it. it was the sort to treat with a weird and uneven hand the issue of homelessness, subway train acrobatics, the fissure which on one side of is the privilege of attending a school like NYU and on the other side is the city the school is sat uglily inside of.

other than that this book is just pretty dumb. it doesn't feel like there is any true feeling or goodwill inside of it. It feels like everything was badly researched and then was not written about and instead the idea of the thing was always written about but that isn't true because the author has firsthand experience which neglects to appear as any current running in the text