A review by ericawrites
Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir by Susie Bright
3.0
Susie's a talented writer, and her conversational style makes this an easy read, even if not all the subjects are breezy fun.
I would've loved to read more of her self-reflection on her life as adult. There's good parts about her parents (who at least her mom had passed when this was published), but everything else is more about the moment. Like I wonder how she feels about the adults she had sex with when she was still a teen or the amount of sex workers she was friends/lovers with who committed suicide? Or what about her relationship with Jon and the stability at a height of chaos in the rest of her life?
But I also understand the protectiveness any of us on the margins of society have to protect each other and the work from being degraded by our critics finding out what messy humans we are (because we're human). It's hard to critique your comrades.
I would've loved to read more of her self-reflection on her life as adult. There's good parts about her parents (who at least her mom had passed when this was published), but everything else is more about the moment. Like I wonder how she feels about the adults she had sex with when she was still a teen or the amount of sex workers she was friends/lovers with who committed suicide? Or what about her relationship with Jon and the stability at a height of chaos in the rest of her life?
But I also understand the protectiveness any of us on the margins of society have to protect each other and the work from being degraded by our critics finding out what messy humans we are (because we're human). It's hard to critique your comrades.