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How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity by Michael Cart
1 review
cheye13's review
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
Not to be "I am uncomfortable when we are not about me," but the introduction very obviously excludes the B in LGBT, and the following stories don't solve that. Out of context, that wouldn't bother me much, but this was published for teens in 2009, which was exactly when I needed someone to validate bisexuality as an identity.
Otherwise, I really appreciated the breadth of racial, sexual, and gender identities. Aside from the visual chapters, I also liked how the prose stories played with format and style. Yet this was published over 10 years ago, and it does read like it. It's not distateful or insensitive, but narrative choices that were important then can read as passé now. My main issue was the length of most of the stories – I found myself bored more often than not.
★★★★★| A Word From the Nearly Distant Past
★★★★| My Virtual World; The Missing Person
★★★| Happily Ever After; My Life as a Dog; Trev; A Dark Red Love Knot; Fingernail; Dear Lang; The Silk Road Runs Through Tupperneck NH
★★| Dyke March, First Time
Otherwise, I really appreciated the breadth of racial, sexual, and gender identities. Aside from the visual chapters, I also liked how the prose stories played with format and style. Yet this was published over 10 years ago, and it does read like it. It's not distateful or insensitive, but narrative choices that were important then can read as passé now. My main issue was the length of most of the stories – I found myself bored more often than not.
★★★★★| A Word From the Nearly Distant Past
★★★★| My Virtual World; The Missing Person
★★★| Happily Ever After; My Life as a Dog; Trev; A Dark Red Love Knot; Fingernail; Dear Lang; The Silk Road Runs Through Tupperneck NH
★★| Dyke March, First Time
Content Warnings
Graphic: Toxic relationship
Moderate: Violence, Hate crime, Sexual content, Confinement, Self harm, Gun violence, and Racism
Minor: Islamophobia, Infidelity, Transphobia, Homophobia, and Suicide
My Life as a Dog involves a hate crime; My Virtual World involves self harm; A Dark Red Love Knot involves gun violence, murder, and implied suicide; Fingernail involves a toxic and abusive relationship; The Missing Person involves confinement; First Time involves sexual content
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