A review by lesserjoke
Turbulence by David Szalay

3.0

I think I like the idea of this book more than the execution. It's a quick read told over a dozen chapters, each focusing on a minor figure from the one before, who either has recently taken a flight or will be taking one soon. These character sketches are generally effective, but they're so short they feel more like snapshots than fully-fledged stories. It's a good reminder that everyone in our lives has depths of their own, and that we are connected in small ways we'll never know to people all over the globe. Yet it doesn't add up to much, in the end.

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