Darryl is a disarmingly funny and unabashedly intelligent look at a community of people parsing masculinity, marriage, sex and love on their own terms. Darryl crashes through the pieties of inclusive literature like a horny aurochs through an Apple Store. This book takes the raw power of the sentence seriously, which is the best way to be funny: Darryl is sprinting ahead of the reader, mooning, with knowledge they crave, and we must try our hardest to catch up.
I was already breathless by page ten, my gut torn in half by horrified glee. Jackie Ess is the best. Cuck rights! Ess is what I might call a burgeoning cult literary figure, armed with an unmistakable lyric deadpan and a taste for provocative subject matter. What Darryl is looking for is a crisis of sufficient severity that it will cause him to feel real to himself. Dear Miss Maxfeld. Probably there is only one person who is homosexual in one place at one time and that one person I am afraid is me.
After sixteen-year-old Lynn writes her thirty-seven-year-old English teacher a letter they embark on one of the funniest and saddest love affairs in fiction, shrouded in secrecy and guilt. Trying to pass, Lynn continues to neck with her boyfriend and make bigoted jokes with her friends.
Feigning innocence with her parents, each night she checks the mirror for tell-tale signs of perversion. It is as believable in its depiction of a closeted teen as it is heartbreaking. She lives in Los Angeles. The great triumph of this novel is that DeLynn has captured the way adolescents felt, talked, and behaved during the early s.
A dazzlingly gritty exposure of a girlhood experience usually neglected by both private and public consciousness. Now what. Seas that go turquoise When you stop looking at them. Wrestling with the mind of war, at times shocking in its self-analysis, Wave of Blood is a furious and sincere essay, an eclipse notebook, a family chronicle, all told in the poetry of witness. Ariana Reines is a poet, playwright, and performing artist from Salem, Massachusetts and based in New York.
