A review by basha
Metropolis by B.A. Shapiro

3.0

A multiple POV book about the increasingly connected  lives of those connected to an old storage unit that for some plot based but unrealistic reason has no security cameras. The book is fine. There are politically liberal plot lines about things like the horrors of ICE and intimate partner violence, but the analysis is light… as evidenced with lines like “he always assumed whoever owned the building was some pudgy older guy. vaguely Italian. even those who are stereotyped are guilty of stereotyping.” Like… is assuming your building owner is an old white man a stereotype remotely commensurate with systemic racism against black people? Overall the book moves at a good pace, pressing toward an accident noted earlier in the book.