A review by silodear
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air by Darragh McKeon

4.0

This book was very good and quite interesting. It's outside of my usual book inclinations and I very much enjoyed the change of pace. A difficult and dark story of lives lived during the Chernobyl crisis; humans being humans amidst a terrible nightmare. But Chernobyl is not the entirety of this story, just the setting.

There is also a really engaging journalistic essay at the back of this book that I found really edifying.

This book was offered as one of three choices for July's book club. I voted for this book, but it didn't win the poll. I couldn't resist reading it anyway.