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Several words come to mind as I try to describe this book: Original. Brilliant. Illuminating. Devastating. I’ve read memoirs about domestic partner abuse before, but I’ve never read anything like this.
She bares her soul and her pain here, but the thing that shook me on every page was her vulnerability. And the personal is political here: she struggles with whether to share her story at all, because to share her story is to make her community vulnerable. As a gay woman, she feels the pressure to ...more
She bares her soul and her pain here, but the thing that shook me on every page was her vulnerability. And the personal is political here: she struggles with whether to share her story at all, because to share her story is to make her community vulnerable. As a gay woman, she feels the pressure to ...more
I would call this metafiction except it's nonfiction. (But I do believe that all memoir is fiction on some level, just as all fiction is memoir on some level.) This is as dazzling in technique (bringing in references to everything from Star Trek to the Thompson Motif-Index of Folk-Literature) as it is often harrowing in subject.
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I didn't love this book as much as other readers. Machado tells the story of an abusive relationship with her former girlfriend by playing with form (every chapter is a brief excursion in a different style). A fast but dense read.
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