![]() ![]() I hope these insights prove helpful for prospective readers! It’s been a really interesting reading experience. Now that I’ve read Green’s book, I’m still not entirely sure whether what I got from it is what they’d intended (or what they’d advertised). I was instantly minded of 2016’s Sleeping Giants, but other than that it was hard for me to get an impression of what I was supposed to expect from this book. I first heard of Hank Green’s debut story An Absolutely Remarkable Thing in November 2018’s Book of the Month (not sponsored), and I was skeptical even then. Manhattan’s a safe place, but that doesn’t mean a twenty-three-year-old woman by herself on the street at 3 A.M. Lay thine eyes upon it and see that it is barren.’ People gave the sculpture a quick glance and kept on walking, just as I had very nearly done. It is also the city of ‘Behold the field in which I grow my fucks. Manhattan is less legit than it once was, for sure, but this is still the city that never sleeps. ![]() Several people who weren’t Andy walked by as I waited for him. ![]()
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