Really informative but also very dry. I read it for an African-American History class and I did enjoy it, but I‘m a major history geek and used to reading denser texts. I definitely wouldn‘t recommend this to someone who wasn‘t super-into history.

Informative and beautifully written. O‘Neil has an amazing mastery of language and manages to shift between the glamour and the grit of Bangkok without getting too confusing. The book could easily be dense, but it‘s not—she breaks it up with quotes, bits of poetry, anecdotes, and photographs, and the aforementioned flow in her language keeps the book from becoming dry. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️