A review by lily_west
All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

I devoured this book in a day, mostly so I could get all of the crying over with. The story is so sad and so necessary. Ruth Coker Burks writes in a way that is intriguing, enveloping, desperately sad, lighthearted when it's needed, and even funny. You get a sense of the real people behind her stories. The insight of a straight person into gay clubs and drag culture in the eighties and nineties is well done, too.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Death, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Terminal illness, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, and Religious bigotry

Moderate: Child abuse

Minor: Addiction and Drug use