A review by will_meringue
Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise by Jack Parlett

4.0

An emotive and sweeping account of Fire Island's history, with a particular focus on its literary and activist figures. I found it quite light-touch in places, and would have loved to read more, but I gleaned enough to move forward and read more about the areas that most interested me. I thought its most powerful reminder is that community is not inevitable and apathy and agnosticism about your relation to other queer people is so much easier than the real work of community. It's all out there for you, baby. But you have to participate. You're the party. You're the protest. You're the island.