You can’t always predict what gets famous or why. This novella of a torrid love affair between two women had somehow made it. Something about it struck the chord with the general audience and a slew of celebs of screen and written word as the many pages of praise preceding the story AND the numerous quoted letters to the author in the afterword attest so loudly to.
Apparently, people found this sort of story relatable, be it their coming out book or what. It boasts a sort of beyond-queer appeal. Outside of all the noise, if you just take the story as is, it’s an easy one-sit read about a woman in her twenties who moves to NYC and begins an affair with a butch nineteen years her senior. The butch is in a ten-year relationship with a woman, but this is the first lesbian affair for the younger one. Cue in drama, heavy heavy drama. Bucketloads of drama. In some ways exactly the sort of drama ugly clichés about lesbian relationships might be talking about. Unnecessary, ludicrous, overbrlown drama. And yet, something about this tiny book—the confusion of it all, likely, of figuring out one’s sexuality and one’s needs and wants in a relationship—had really connected with the audience over the years, hence this ten-year anniversary reprint from a major publisher. Well, look at you go, tiny book. It is objectively compelling, so kudos there. Otherwise, your level of emotional engagement will depend entirely on your levels of personal confusion. Thanks Netgalley.
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