A review by library_lurker
Shine of the Ever by Claire Rudy Foster

4.0

god damn. it's so nice to read a book and actually relate to it. the blurb says it's about the 90's but mostly it seemed to be the mid-2000's, a weird time in a lot of cities where they were about to get extremely gentrified but nobody knew exactly what was going to come. I think the author and I are around the same age, I was in my 20's in that decade and goddamn did these stories hit home. they're very well-written too, with the occasional perfect line that shimmers like a freepile diamond and punches you in the gut all at once.