Review: Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

But survival is not primarily an act of individual will, of course. It's an act of collective will.

This is a very interesting read that does a good job at capturing how tuberculosis affected major aspects of history and how it continues to pervade many countries in the present, purely because we've denied them access to the cure.

I don't have a ton to say about the content because I think it truly speaks for itself, but I do have something to say about this book's structure: it's unbalanced. Typically, I'm a drinker of the John Green Kool-Aid, but his interjections feel out of place here. If this were a memoir, I'm sure I would have loved his commentary, but this is an awkward 88% factual, 10% narrative, and 2% memoir. I think the editor let Green get a little too indulgent.

Still a solid read because what it has to say is eye-opening, but I wish it picked a lane and stuck with it.