Michelle Hart
Author of We Do What We Do in the Dark
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We Do What We Do in the Dark: A Novel by Michelle Hart
this one goes out to all the lonely gay girls everywhere!! a story of forbidden love. loneliness, intimacy and desperation. trust for a real connection. the way Michelle Hart writes is the best. the beauty attached to her words is mesmerizing. the beauty here comes under the sharpness and pain attached to the prose. the way mallory desires the woman who remains nameless throughout the book!!
2022. Mallory Green is a Jewish loner from New Jersey at a Long Island college having her first love affair with a married, female professor. Her mother died of cancer. The affair colors her life for years. Finally she tells her girlfriend about it, and starts to release herself from the professor’s overwhelming influence on her life.
Poetic and melancholic, “We Do What We Do In the Dark” is a character-driven novel that captures queer adulthood in very specific, soft light. At first glance, it’s a forbidden romance, but beneath that, it’s an exploration of the desire to be understood, to be seen, the aching rawness of longing, as well as the effects people can have on one another (whether they are aware of it or not).
Hart has a beautiful way with words; they have a really unique way of balancing of lyricism and starkness that fits this novel so well! I loved Mallory’s character, too- she won’t be everyone’s favorite but personally I found her deeply compelling and relatable.
I think anyone who has enjoyed books such as “Happy Hour” by Marlowe Granados or “The Idiot” by Elif Batuman would like this one a lot!… (more)
Hart has a beautiful way with words; they have a really unique way of balancing of lyricism and starkness that fits this novel so well! I loved Mallory’s character, too- she won’t be everyone’s favorite but personally I found her deeply compelling and relatable.
I think anyone who has enjoyed books such as “Happy Hour” by Marlowe Granados or “The Idiot” by Elif Batuman would like this one a lot!… (more)
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