Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource
Persuasive and solutions-oriented ... Wincingly clear prose ... Knotty...and intriguing ... Smart and compelling.
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A roving, inveterately curious account that argues convincingly for his subject’s centrality to community health ... Measured ... [Bloch's] tone is so evenhanded that it can belie the urgency that would seem to follow from his diagnoses .... Part of the issue is that Bloch tends to toggle between Los Angeles and the country writ large ... This collapse risks giving the impression that the United States is uniformly bad on shade ... More examination of cases where U.S. cities have made different choices might have sustained the nuance of his earlier chapters.
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Necessary Fiction is singular because it subtly transposes an idea that recurs in queer media—that families are both essential and malleable—to a broader tapestry of human lives ... It offers...a vision of how kinship might evolve for everyone in a world of increasing mobility, urbanization, and atomization ... Osunde also reminds the reader how deeply vulnerable, and deeply restorative, conversations among family members can be when they’re sustained through loyalty and mutual respect.
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