My Review:
★★★★★
Tomorrowland is a fantastic collection of short stories. I must say my favorites—and the ones that taught me the most about Dr. Bates—have to be Guilt City, A Survey of My Exes, and Future Me. I found them heartwrenching and heartbreaking in their own special ways. It shows that it is entirely possible to be self-aware of yourself and your problems, and clearly the effort is made by each of the narrators to fix himself. It truly explores the human vices and the human desire to better oneself. Each story has a character that is very aware of his own failures, but it is the hope of redemption that keeps him going. Tomorrowland as a collection is a very self-aware, very meta collection of stories, in which Dr. Bates takes the time to examine his own psyche and his own shortcomings, possibly in order to try and improve them.
Any way you look at it, Tomorrowland is an enjoyable, gripping read that truly makes one empathetic for the narrators, which is the sign of an effective, powerful book.
