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

dark reflective sad slow-paced

3.0

I expected this book to invoke more feelings in me. I’m interested in the topic because I definitely believe that loneliness and lack of meaningful community is one of the big bads that helps hold up everything from disease to fascism, and yet…the book didn’t move me in the ways that I expected (or honestly, much at all). It feels particularly on the nose to say I didn’t connect with the author’s story of loneliness, but here we are. I was more interested in the macro story of loneliness, and instead felt like it was a lot of the author’s personal story, along with way, way too much time spent on Harlow’s literally tortuous monkey experiments.
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