A review by pferdina
Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi

dark sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.0

I did not like this book although it was interesting. A lot about the systematic racism and other systems of inequality that exist now in the US. It is set in New Haven, Connecticut, in the future about fifty years. Climate change and the global pandemic and some kind of nuclear disaster has caused most of the white citizens to leave for space stations, leaving the poor and people of color behind on the damaged and poisonous planet. Sectioned into four parts, named for the four seasons, there isn’t much of a plot or story. Just what happens to the characters day by day. Buying a new house, death of close relatives, finding love, discovering a band of horses, tracking a murderer through the desert, a prison revolt.