With dazzling omniscience, Cary McClelland’s Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley, delivers the voices of the people, each one sharing their own understanding of the city, like an oral history of the present. It’s complex, compelling, and its upcoming publication on Oct. 9 feels like a cultural event ... panoramic, complex — and surprisingly well-balanced.
Not so much a direct indictment of the tech industry or other forces that have reshaped San Francisco as a conflicted and complex portrait of a city starving for solutions ... essential.
McClelland’s interviewees share many thought-provoking anecdotes, narratives, and dialogues ... Recommended for readers interested in human interest stories, urban studies, and the socioeconomics of urban America, and lovers of oral history.
