The first few chapters of Writing Our Way Out pleasantly surprised me; I hadn’t seen this idea done anywhere else and I like how it was all put together and executed. The individual writing styles, ideas, thoughts, and ways of life from everyone that contributed to the piece, as well as how Coogan strung them all together with his own writing in between, makes it one of the most interesting pieces I’ve read in quite a while.

The sheer amount of raw perspectives given over the span of a hundred or so pages is incredible, and I’d think it would be hard for a book composed by multiple people all with different backgrounds focused on storytelling not to be. I know that I already see things in a slightly different way now that I’ve been exposed to this work, mostly because I’ve spent more time thinking about the content than I have exclusively reading the book.