A review by gwenswoons
Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

challenging dark informative sad fast-paced

4.5

This was excellent — it was on the summer reading list I’m going through by a fave indie bookstore (The Bookshelf of Thomasville, Georgia); it’s not one I would have read on my own and I’m glad I did. I haven’t read The Anthropocene Reviewed but for sure will put it on my TBR after this, in audio form since I thought John Green’s own narration of this was great. It was a challenging read, but JG made it both beautifully accessible and informative in its colloquial feel and personal storytelling. I especially appreciated Green’s attention to connecting the dots between TB and so many other forms of injustice in the world and across history — racism, inequity, and violence of every kind, across countries and civilizations. I would (and will!) recommend this to any reader.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child death, Chronic illness, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Colonisation, Dysphoria, Injury/Injury detail, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic