A review by conor_forgot
Cleanness by Garth Greenwell

emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes

4.25

Utterly luminous prose, writing that ringers truer to the way people exist / interact with each other in relationships and space than almost anything else I've read. Companion read to Brandon Taylor's Filthy Animals, though Cleanness has more explicit (some erotic, some scary, some loving, really all the kinds) sex than the former. RIYL explorations of queerness, quiet but precisely drawn interiority, sex scenes depicted frankly, and loving depictions of a city few Americans think about all that much. 
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