by Leslie Feinberg
I've held onto this book for awhile, always hesitating to read it because I knew it would be tough read - reviews spoke of the rough style of the writing, and the subject matter - a young woman deciding to pass as a man in the 1950-60s midwest? That is some dark territory. It's important to write ab...
"She pointed to the circle the ring cast on the ground. I nodded, acknowledging that the shadow was as real as the ring. She smiled and waved her hand in the space between the ring and its shadow. Isn't this distance also real?" Warning: This is a ramble. THIS is the book that caused my recent ...
This novel moved me. I was crying in parts. If you haven't read this novel yet, you should.
A deep, thoughtfully written novel, well-crafted and intriguing, with beautiful imagery that tells a brutally ugly story.
A voice from the borderlands of gender, from someone damaged by a society trying to force one-thing-or-the-other. This is an autobiographical novel. The main character found belonging for a little while in the world of butch-femme culture during the sixties, but that culture didn't last and once aga...
I reread this a few years ago and was amazed by how powerful the writing still is. Even though it's nominally fiction, it still has the force of memoir.
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