A review by agavemonster
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London by Lauren Elkin

adventurous lighthearted reflective slow-paced

2.25

stupidddddd. sorry I’m a hater!!!! this book is written by the kind of caroline-calloway american lady that studies abroad for six months and says “arse” instead of “ass” for the rest of her life. the overall conceit is good (best chapters were on agnès varda, sophie calle - we notice it’s only white french female filmmakers she has the best capacity to write about) but each chapter broken up into different cities and artists she examines are SO uneven and any moment that memoir enters the picture it all goes rapidly downhill. and she’s weirdly racist/xenophobic toward the japanese, especially japanese women