![]() ![]() It is a detective story and a dissection of selfhood, a puzzle every piece of which pleased me as it clicked into place., This is a gorgeous, brilliant book that is all but guaranteed to resonate with queer folks, word nerds, and readers everywhere., Sleek, elegant. ![]() The Autobiographies of Carson McCullers manages to do all of this in earnest and honest and riveting vignettes. My favorite memoirs are those that scrutinize the self as an unreliable source of narrative truth and the one we must nonetheless rely upon. My favorite biographies are full of historical literary gossip and interested in the shadow selves of public persons. Captivating and trenchant and moving, Shapland's genre-mixing debut will stay with me a long time., You do not need to be a queer woman, a lover of Carson McCuller's fiction, or interested in the mysterious junctures between our own lives and those of our favorite artists to love this book, but for those of us who are those things, Jenn Shapland's memoir is a particular trove of delights. It's a biography that's also a memoir, a story of obsession and longing. ![]() This is a work of lesbian recovery, of literary biography and of breathtaking queer autobiography by an exceptional debut author., You don't have to be a Carson McCullers fan to admire this remarkable book. ![]()
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