A review by tinywriter_
To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine

5.0

I picked this up after seeing Viv Albertine speak at an event last year, and it's even better than I anticipated. Dealing, ostensibly, with the death of her mother, Viv has written a punk, patriarchy-bashing, truth-explosion of a memoir, spliced together in small chapters that read like mini essays and hum with emotion. Despite the subject matter being unhappy, the book actually isn't. It's uplifting, angry, joyful, thoughtful, and beautiful in equal measure. I've never read anything quite like it.