I can easily, easily see how it could be someone's favorite book and I hope to get that perspective from book group or comments!
I will say that the ideas that cities change and expand over time and the boundaries of what's considered 'the city' can be fluid is a major part of the climax of the book, though, again, we don't see how that plays out for anybody but New York. I'll be very curious to see what you think of it when you get around to it!
(I think I would feel so much better about it if it was boroughs and neighborhoods! Gods of big places and gods of little places! But of course that rapidly gets infinitely fractal, the character of this street as opposed to the character of that street....)
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I will say that the ideas that cities change and expand over time and the boundaries of what's considered 'the city' can be fluid is a major part of the climax of the book, though, again, we don't see how that plays out for anybody but New York. I'll be very curious to see what you think of it when you get around to it!
(I think I would feel so much better about it if it was boroughs and neighborhoods! Gods of big places and gods of little places! But of course that rapidly gets infinitely fractal, the character of this street as opposed to the character of that street....)