A review by ingebored
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

slow-paced

2.0

I really wanted to like this book, but I found it lazy and ironically normative. From Nelson's almost comical insistance that she is not normative because she likes anal to the continuously condescending tone towards normative lives is really tiresome. The interesting points are fragmented and the themes don't tie together very well. I cringed when Nelson describes giving her child a Native American name without having any ties to Indigenous culture, and then immediately justifies it by one Indigenous woman saying it was okay. 
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