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Yr Dead
Yr Dead | Sam Sax
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In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this book flashes before their eyes. Everyone Ezra's ever loved, every place they've felt queer and at home, or queer and out of place, reveals itself in an instant. Unfolding in fragments of memory, Ezra dissolves into the family, religion, desire, losses, pains and joys that made them into the person that's decided on this final act of protest. Told in lyric fragments that span both lifetimes, and geography, Yr Dead is a queer, Jewish, diasporic coming of age story that questions how our historical memory shapes our political and emotional present. Visceral, propulsive, and at turns fluorescently beautiful and fluorescently tragic, Yr Dead is a blistering debut novel from one of our most dynamic and imaginative writers.
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BarbaraBB
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In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire in front of the Trump Tower and when Ezra dies, life flashes before their eyes. People Ezra loved, people who left or betrayed them, places they‘ve felt at home or estranged, good and bad feelings of being queer. Written in short fragments , Ezra dissolves into everything that made them into the person that‘s decided on this final act of protest.

#ToB25Longlist A light pick

Suet624 Gulp. Um..... so not exactly a Christmas read? 😬 3w
BarbaraBB @Suet624 Ha! No not really. It‘s quite sad, not really festive 😉 3w
squirrelbrain Thanks for the tag Barbara! I have ordered this one, second-hand off Amazon, so it‘s coming later this week. I had the feeling it might be a ‘typical‘ ToB read…. 😬 3w
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Yr Dead | Sam Sax
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I feel like this book could have been so compelling, but it didn‘t quite work for me. In it, a young man is reflecting on his life as he dies by self-immolation. There are some bits I wish were explored more thoroughly and other parts that just went weird in a way I didn‘t like. I do dig the cover, though.

NBA longlist, fiction

dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 3mo
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