Thanks to Haymarket Books for the free book.

This collection is brilliant, well-structured, insightful, and the scope of Ewing’s imagination constantly floored me. Ewing totally reimagines the way we look at historic events and familiar places, making them more vivid than either fact or fiction. Each poem takes an entirely different concept, always rooted in the theme of the collection, and executes it flawlessly. Honestly I think Ewing does for poetry what N. K. Jemisin does for SFF. Both authors take perspectives that are commonly marginalized in their genres and then work them over and over and over again, coming at them from a thousand different angles, proving that their subjects and themes are not mere tokens, but limitless, capable of devoting a lifetime of work to. Ewing’s work does this specifically for the city of Chicago, and here she pours her creative energy into one particular summer in it, turning the single event into a kaleidoscope of viewpoints, explorations, connections, and allusions, that shine with their sheer scope by the end.