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jaclyncrupi's review against another edition
4.0
Being deeply interested in projects that queer the archives and reclaim narratives, this book was a shot to my veins and set my brain on fire. Biographers and history sought to erase McCullers’s chronic illness and her love of women but Shapland inserted herself and her own experience of her sexuality and with POTS into the narrative and the archive to shine a light on what is undeniable. This is genre-defying narrative non-fiction of the highest order. I want someone to do exactly this with Dorothy Porter (different I know as she wasn’t closeted but still).
wm94's review against another edition
5.0
Carson McCullers was queer as fuck and this book proves it.
This book is a vivid and emotional challenge against perverse presentism, and a fantastic blending of memoir, queer theory, and biography.
If you love McCullers, read this book!
This book is a vivid and emotional challenge against perverse presentism, and a fantastic blending of memoir, queer theory, and biography.
If you love McCullers, read this book!
lanid's review against another edition
emotional
informative
reflective
4.5
Content Warnings
Moderate: Toxic relationship and Lesbophobia
Minor: Alcoholism and Chronic illness
lue_moon's review against another edition
3.75
This was an interesting mix of memoir and biography. I appreciated the short chapters and structure incorporated into it. I found elements surrounding identity and queerness that resonated.
dijon_supply's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.0
kschlottman's review against another edition
5.0
Beautifully possessed. I was already a Carson McCullers fan but now I'm also a Jenn Shapland fan as well.
letterfolds's review against another edition
4.75
Oh, memoir-through-reading, autobiography as criticism and vice versa, how I love you.