I love this book, both for the original subject -- the life of a $20 bills as it travels from person to person -- but also for the slices of human life portrayed without any trace of judgement on the author's part. What I find particularly effective is how each story intersects the next in the moment when the $20 passes hands, a moment that is described from the point of view of two different people, so that we see each character both from the outside -- through someone else's eyes -- and from the inside, through the character's own thoughts. A brilliant technique that naturally resulted in the perfect circularity of the story's structure.I quick read I'd definitely recommend. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. A short and easy read but an enjoyable one. I liked how we only meet each character for a short while and we get to use our imaginations to create the rest of their story. I very much enjoyed the journey of the $20 and I loved how the people that touched it had very different lives and personalities. I also enjoyed the underlying message that we should not judge someone by our short interactions with them.
What do You think about The Twenty Dollar Bill (2007)?
Really liked this book...read it on the plane, couldn't put it down.
—angelnfs4
