A review by jessrock
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke

dark informative reflective slow-paced

2.75

This book is a mix of memoir and nonfiction, illustrated in the manner of a graphic novel. It meanders a lot, and spends more time dispensing factoids than it does really wrestling with what it means to be lonely, and overall never really gripped me with anything it was saying. The second half of the book talks extensively about Harry Harlow and his monkey experiments; I'd read a book about Harlow before (Love at Goon Park) so this information wasn't new to me, but it's a heavy and distressing topic that may take readers by surprise to get halfway into a book about loneliness and suddenly be hit with ongoing discussions of cruelty to animals.
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