finished in ONE DAY it was that good.
about queer love and loss in the South, sparse prose but with a ton of beautiful descriptions on food and sex. shifting perspectives throughout make you see every side of conflicting situations and feel heartbroken and hopeful for everybody by the last page
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if you've recently lost someone i'd highly recommend this book❤️🩹 it's about loss, love, friendship and being queer🫖🍵♥️🧺🧸🎐
Jul 7, 2024
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i read this on new years day and january second and every time i picked it up i stopped crying. i was crying a lot those two days so i knew i was on to something special. more fiction should also be recipe books because all of the characters have to eat something sometime.
Jan 30, 2024
“I discover a journey not identical to my life’s path, and yet blazed with the intimate familiarity of my own lived experience. I locate theory—the way it is lived— in motion and in interconnection. Not hard to understand; hard to live.“
- Leslie Feinberg (10th anniversary edition)
heartwrenching from start to finish. a warm hug for someone like me.
i can’t really criticize the writing of this book, just because it’s the uniqueness and importance of this story that sets it apart. it is a story that absolutely needed to be written. what’s even more amazing is that such simple writing could capture the lived intricacies of gender and sexuality in so many shades.
i had never felt seen like this.
Jan 7, 2025
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i love that our seemingly high-tech phones still cannot do the job of capturing the moon‘s ethereal essence. it’s so humbling and vulnerable to attempt to take a photo of her and have it come out all ugly and orb-like. it’s literally none of ur business to see what she looks like anytime apart from the present moment!
(and please don’t tell me if samsung or google pixel have invented technology to do a better job of this. it wouldn’t sit right with me… like trying to sneakily undress a woman without her consent when she has explicitly stated she’d rather remain demurely clothed and mysterious)
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