Boy, what a book to read during lockdown, when I was in New York and yet felt so far removed from it. It was like watching Into the Spider-Verse and having the same response of longing, of recognition, of memory.
I loved so much about this book. The premise is so interesting; I loved the idea of a physical city birth, and the idea of a midwife being necessary to bring that about. And of course with New York, there would need to be multiple people to do that, because it is a city made up of smaller cities. All of the characters were so wonderful, and my god the way that Manhattan feels about New York City is just so much of what I want in my relationships.
I also loved how completely unsubtle the metaphor of everything was. We know who the protagonists are and who the antagonists, and what the root cause of the rot is, and it gets into the culture and art and money of it all. It was such an amazing fantasia on New York, and it made me so desperate to get to the other side of this current existence, on so many levels.
Grade: A
I loved so much about this book. The premise is so interesting; I loved the idea of a physical city birth, and the idea of a midwife being necessary to bring that about. And of course with New York, there would need to be multiple people to do that, because it is a city made up of smaller cities. All of the characters were so wonderful, and my god the way that Manhattan feels about New York City is just so much of what I want in my relationships.
I also loved how completely unsubtle the metaphor of everything was. We know who the protagonists are and who the antagonists, and what the root cause of the rot is, and it gets into the culture and art and money of it all. It was such an amazing fantasia on New York, and it made me so desperate to get to the other side of this current existence, on so many levels.
Grade: A
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