Your Love is Not Good

Longlisted for the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize US & Canada I stumbled away. I imagined what we must look like, two women locked together, one shrieking, beseeching, one flailing, refusing, mother and daughter, enemies, strangers, artist and muse. I started to run up the stairs, not looking b......more

The unnamed main character gradually shifts from a pathetic lump with major self worth issues into what she thinks might be confidence but is actually self-centred petty-tyrant behaviour, going from obsessing over how perfect her lovers are to deliberately ignoring the boundaries of her partners, pu......more

What!! This was a queer fever dream that I couldn’t put down. So compulsive and strange in the best way. The commentary on whiteness and art was great, it reminded me of what “Yellowface” promised but didn’t deliver. As someone who is queer, half Asian and half white, from southern CA, spent a heart......more

Epically beautiful, smart, and cool. I loved being in the head of a successful yet still struggling artist, surrounded by an industry of people that want something from her, and artist peers that try to control her actions. There's a entrancing rebellious spirit to this book. The commentary is powerf......more

2.8 i have read too many lit fics that are intentionally disjointed, erratic, hazy, etc. to demonstrate the narrator’s mounting instability/unreliability and am a bit tired of how predictable this specific genre of unpredictability is. obviously that is a commentary on my own reading habits more tha......more