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A review by mjcglz
I Am Not Myself These Days: A Memoir by Josh Kilmer-Purcell
5.0
This memoir is the extraordinary and darkly funny love tale of an advertising-by-day-drag-queen-at-night and a paid escort. It's about two misfits, about finding humanity beneath the dysfunction and the outrageous. You will flinch, and expand what it means to love another, to transform and find yourself:
sometimes, down is the only way out. ;
you will be disgusted at one point then crying the next; it will tell you all about a couple trying to deal with the present and the future, to care, to be openhearted and to salvage themselves from the wreckage since holding on to someone is not always the same as keeping them close. .
Hysterical and really funny, don't be surprised when you find boobs full of water with goldfish inside, or the author continually having to figure out the past night's events: “Some people might get obsessed with figuring out how they wound up on the F train in drag, with no bag and only one shoe. But that’s simply not my style. What’s done is done. I’m sure I had my reasons.”
Finally, it's a story about the power of sex and bodies, hunger and excess, love, drinks and drugs, feeling free and being free.
sometimes, down is the only way out. ;
you will be disgusted at one point then crying the next; it will tell you all about a couple trying to deal with the present and the future, to care, to be openhearted and to salvage themselves from the wreckage since holding on to someone is not always the same as keeping them close. .
Hysterical and really funny, don't be surprised when you find boobs full of water with goldfish inside, or the author continually having to figure out the past night's events: “Some people might get obsessed with figuring out how they wound up on the F train in drag, with no bag and only one shoe. But that’s simply not my style. What’s done is done. I’m sure I had my reasons.”
Finally, it's a story about the power of sex and bodies, hunger and excess, love, drinks and drugs, feeling free and being free.