Scan barcode
zackarinareads's review
4.0
Sometimes you stumble upon something wondrous and unknown in the library.
This is a modern retelling of Antigone, very lyrical, pretty sad, kind of queer and a little bit hopeful. Do I need to say more?
This is a modern retelling of Antigone, very lyrical, pretty sad, kind of queer and a little bit hopeful. Do I need to say more?
ivan_levitt's review
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts
Moderate: Self harm
lolaleviathan's review
5.0
There is a tiny dog in my house who we call Tiny as a nickname and he responds to it and he has probably grieved a lot in his life and it has made him tough, but not too tough.
I bought my copy of the book TINY at Giovanni’s Room in Philadelphia. I guess TINY had been on my radar before, but I didn’t remember that. I just bought it because it had epigraphs from Tracy and the Plastics, Billy-Ray Belcourt, and Donna Haraway.
while reading TINY I had that song stuck in my head where Sharon Van Etten says, "I used to be free. I used to be seventeen." In some ways, I was freer as a teenager than I am now. In other ways, I'm freer now. I've experienced a lot of loss since then. This book, TINY, speaks to both these selves, me now and many teenage mes, many mes in between.
In high school, I read Antigone and was told that Greek tragedy was designed to make the viewer experience catharsis. TINY definitely did.
Antigone/TINY examines individual human loss and the systems that loss is embedded in, without oversimplifying the relationship between bodies and systems. Since of course as Kurt Vonnegut wrote, "even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death." TINY helps me imagine a relationship to death, to grief and mourning, that is about individual bodies and selves, that isn't about blame or cause and effect or even fitting loss into a narrative other than: I loved this person. they are dead. I am alive. I remember them.
now let's go dancing.
I bought my copy of the book TINY at Giovanni’s Room in Philadelphia. I guess TINY had been on my radar before, but I didn’t remember that. I just bought it because it had epigraphs from Tracy and the Plastics, Billy-Ray Belcourt, and Donna Haraway.
while reading TINY I had that song stuck in my head where Sharon Van Etten says, "I used to be free. I used to be seventeen." In some ways, I was freer as a teenager than I am now. In other ways, I'm freer now. I've experienced a lot of loss since then. This book, TINY, speaks to both these selves, me now and many teenage mes, many mes in between.
In high school, I read Antigone and was told that Greek tragedy was designed to make the viewer experience catharsis. TINY definitely did.
Antigone/TINY examines individual human loss and the systems that loss is embedded in, without oversimplifying the relationship between bodies and systems. Since of course as Kurt Vonnegut wrote, "even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death." TINY helps me imagine a relationship to death, to grief and mourning, that is about individual bodies and selves, that isn't about blame or cause and effect or even fitting loss into a narrative other than: I loved this person. they are dead. I am alive. I remember them.
now let's go dancing.
meganmilks's review
5.0
In a time of great and enduring grief, Mairead Case brings Antigone back, her queer heart adamant as ever. More than any other writer, I trust this one to bury our dead and let the grief live as love, aching and tremulous and radiating in all directions.
sleaterkenneth's review
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
I really loved this book. I was supposed to read it for work like half a year ago and I didn't and I found it again and I feel really grateful I found it now. It's really special when you're reading a book and know you're going to want to re-read it again.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicide
Moderate: Self harm
hazelpine's review
5.0
Mairead's writing is always so simply lyrical - I never know how it is she manages to write in a way that sound both like "just the facts" but they slowly build into a larger cocoon of knowing, until a character is fleshed out. This one expands slowly in the beginning, and it is a pleasure to be along for that ride.
venneh's review
5.0
I was recommended this by the folks over at Pilsen Community Books, and I can genuinely say that I wasn’t expecting this to be as affecting and close to home as it was. Which, I’m not sure why I thought that originally; at its core, Antigone is about death and grief, and peoples’ reactions to it. One of the first stagings of Antigone I saw was in the glass lobby of my college’s science building, in the skywalk, at night. Taking it, transplanting it to the Pacific Northwest, and making (An)Ti(go)n[y]’s brother a veteran who’s newly come home from the wars makes it hit all the harder. Tiny’s grief and her relationship with her father and brother is at the center of this, and the way Case writes this is beautiful and raw. The power of the dance party is also at the center of this, and one of the final, cathartic scenes in this reminds me of some of the best dance floors I’ve been on and their raw power. I was nervous about how this was going to end given the queer threads and the original text, but I love what Case decided to do here instead. Pick this up, and RESIST PSYCHIC DEATH
blondegirlrachael's review
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
More...