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A review by ssaurer
Paris Metro by Wendell Steavenson
4.0
Read this book.
I was skeptical at first, & was expecting a dry history of Middle Eastern conflicts in the past 20 years from a journalist's perspective, brimming with white privilege and first world problems. Instead, I devoured a wonderfully written book with a protagonist straddling multiple world's & trying to make sense of the impossible. I am taken through news stories that I vaguely recall from the past few decades, thanks to the rapid pace of our society's news cycles. While these events can only be touched on with the broadest brush strokes, I was left with perhaps not a deeper understanding, but a desire to understand.
I was skeptical at first, & was expecting a dry history of Middle Eastern conflicts in the past 20 years from a journalist's perspective, brimming with white privilege and first world problems. Instead, I devoured a wonderfully written book with a protagonist straddling multiple world's & trying to make sense of the impossible. I am taken through news stories that I vaguely recall from the past few decades, thanks to the rapid pace of our society's news cycles. While these events can only be touched on with the broadest brush strokes, I was left with perhaps not a deeper understanding, but a desire to understand.