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Book Riot Read Harder Challenge 2021: memoir by a latinx author
This is a memoir, detailing the author's experiences and fallout of LGBT partner-abuse. While it sounds straightforward, it's not. The author, who reads her own work, uses language in such a way that it sounds like poetry (almost like slam poetry). I also liked the bits of social commentary, especially the explanation of Aimee Mann/Til' Tuesday's 80s hit "Voices Carry". Haunting, but hopeful. ...more
This is a memoir, detailing the author's experiences and fallout of LGBT partner-abuse. While it sounds straightforward, it's not. The author, who reads her own work, uses language in such a way that it sounds like poetry (almost like slam poetry). I also liked the bits of social commentary, especially the explanation of Aimee Mann/Til' Tuesday's 80s hit "Voices Carry". Haunting, but hopeful. ...more
This book was magnificent. I don't remember ever reading a memoir that was laid out in this way, and so well researched that you didn't even notice it was researched. It was brave and beautiful, haunting and horrifying. I know it's only January 20th, but this is already in the running for the best book of the year. Read it.
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Very creative and compelling use of a book by Stith Thompson called Motif-Index of Folk Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exemplar, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends. It’s narratively engaging and uses some very interesting language to compose a second-person narrative that manages to escape its MFA memoir origins and fly into new territory, investing readers with a personal responsibility for thinking more deeply a
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Dec 10, 2020
Sandhya
marked it as to-read
Dec 25, 2020
Maryanne
marked it as to-read
May 07, 2021
fenchurch
marked it as to-read
