dashes101 's review for:

Whose Story Is This?: Old Conflicts, New Chapters by Rebecca Solnit

5.0

challenging emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

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Another 5 star essay collection. I read Tolentino's "Trick Mirror" just before this read and they were two of the best collections I'd ever written. I'd say Tolentino's is more passionate and snarky, typically sticking to facts or stories that most left-leaning people will already have knowledge of. While Solnit writes about similar (but not quite exactly the same) topics, her analysis is much tighter and often takes different, unique, routes. I adored her collection -- each essay felt like they built on each other, but they never felt like they were repeating each other. This was one of my favourite collections of this year by far.