It's really hard to summarize this book, as the title is not really an accurate indication of the contents. I picked it up (well, checked out the downloadable audiobook anyway) in the hopes that Odell would offer some tips for, or at least a treatise on, avoiding the anxiety-inducing vacuum of social media. And I *think* that's what she set out to do. But the book didn't feel very cohesive, in that it meandered from her musings on noticing birds in her urban environment to David Hockney's photo collages to the earliest versions of social media (a couple of publicly accessible computers networked in the Bay Area) to the need to pay attention to inequalities and keep fighting the good fight. With a more accurate title and a more cohesive throughline, this could've been an enjoyable book. But as it was, it was just meh.
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