A review by jdemster
How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer

5.0

I was genuinely surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. It seems, and begins, a little dry and clunky. There is an abundance of information here and a lot of backstory and description of setting and history. But the overall experience that the writer creates here is a unique and informative one. He explores culture and circumstance in a really interesting way, using this game as the star that it all orbits. There is both beautiful side and ugly side explored in this text, and it's all worth it.