Feral City: On Finding Liberation in Lockdown New York [Hardcover]

A [ [A] loving, vivid, near-perfect detailing of the alternate world of connection, possibility, and freedom that opened in the early months of the pandemic, amid overwhelming tragedy and suffering. Not since Rebecca Solnits Perhaps the best book on gentrification written in a decade& funny and gorgeously written& [ Moss is an attentively loving witness to New York City& Passionate and probing& In The writing is excellent and Moss is a grand storyteller. He tells an important story about New York and the pandemic and gentrification and who gets left behind during times of crisis. In its gentle way this is the most radical book I have read in a long time. Its a tale of daily resistance. There? A sublime and furious love letter to our city during the plagueto the months when we reclaimed our streets and lived most vividly even in the midst of death.?A must for every New Yorker, and for everyone who has ever loved a place. Jeremiah Moss grapples with what happened when the private sector left the city at the height of the pandemic, and the people who share public space were left behind. The saddest and the most exhilarating book you will read this year. It is an epic of a liberated city, a philosophical investigation, a love poem addressed to at least a million New Yorkers, and a hex flung at those zombies Moss calls the hyper-normals. A brilliant story of being lost and finding a place when socially constructed ideas of how people can or should show up are dismantled&. Highly recommended&for anyone who has felt inexorably gutted and remade during the COVID pandemic. [R]azor sharp&shot through with pinpoint character sketches, incisive reportage&and lucid discussion of queer theory, this is a vital contribution to New York City history. A captivating chronicle driven by keen wit, a strong sense of place, and a clear love of a citys old soul. US