This book easily speaks to Queer Narrative. If complications if gender like Ms. Major. Like Claude Cahun. Of excess femmeness and living the life like Ms. Josephine Baker. Of trash and treasure like Jack Smith. Of community connection like Audre Lorde. Of pain made personal but not as humorous as Cecilia Gentili. Let me lay here among our stories, in the blood and tears. Where I am seen, and safe and strangely - free

An artistically philosophical rendition on space, place, time, and queerness. The intersections and limitations of historically appraised philosophical thought circumvented and redefined by the sociologically inherently subcultural. (Of the modern era that is) The author does not shy away from race, gender, nor queerness while never claiming expertise outside of their own experience and utilizing the more personally interactive and informed voices of others. Fantastically quick read with a lot of meat on the bone. Worth multiple reads over time

Good Outer Darkness story insert but kinda lame to finish a dope series on a mid-story one-shot arc.

Great story to teach and feel Jamaican hoodoo and spiritualism in a way that feels like it's meant to be taught and learned. A little at a time in meaning and motion through story and narrative

Pacing is wonderful as a small setting and intimate locale. I saw a review that said this "quietly breaks your heart". I agree. Wonderful dive into the intimacies of isolation that can surface in Slavic cultures. The variances of what interaction can look like and mean. And the rambling internal world of the chronically alone.