A review by brynpemery
Banana by Dan Koeppel

informative medium-paced

3.0

I’m a fan of micro histories and this was interesting, but definitely more journalistic than historical. I felt the different components of the book could have been better woven together, and it bothered me how often the author used “we” when discussing the US and Western Europe. More diverse perspectives would have been helpful. And I’d be interested in an update, 15 years later, about how some of the Panama disease mitigation techniques have continued to develop.