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3.46 AVERAGE
3.46 AVERAGE
Mickey Hayward has finally made it—she has a fancy media job and a loving girlfriend. But when she finds out another Black woman is replacing her, Mickey finds herself doubting everything she's worked hard for, her (now dying) career, (seemingly perfect) relationship, and (only down for fun) friend group.
HOMEBODIES is a coming-of-age story that depicts how tiring it is to exist in spaces that constantly overlook you. At work, Mickey faces microaggressions from her white-dominant coworkers. At home, she can't confront her girlfriend's mom's homophobia for fear of causing fights.
While Mickey has her spiraling moments, I appreciate how Denton-Hurst writes with so much sympathy and compassion. She doesn't cast blame on Mickey's (sometimes questionable) decisions but raises systemic issues that often force BIPOC women to fight for scraps. Propulsive and insightful, HOMEBODIES is reminiscent of MAAME (Jessica George) and ALL THIS COULD BE DIFFERENT (Sarah Thankam Mathews).
Thank you to Libro.fm for the gifted ALC
HOMEBODIES is a coming-of-age story that depicts how tiring it is to exist in spaces that constantly overlook you. At work, Mickey faces microaggressions from her white-dominant coworkers. At home, she can't confront her girlfriend's mom's homophobia for fear of causing fights.
While Mickey has her spiraling moments, I appreciate how Denton-Hurst writes with so much sympathy and compassion. She doesn't cast blame on Mickey's (sometimes questionable) decisions but raises systemic issues that often force BIPOC women to fight for scraps. Propulsive and insightful, HOMEBODIES is reminiscent of MAAME (Jessica George) and ALL THIS COULD BE DIFFERENT (Sarah Thankam Mathews).
Thank you to Libro.fm for the gifted ALC
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A beautiful and raw character driven book. Give me more books about lesbians going through life crisis’s of their career and romantic hardships and dysfunctional familial dynamics!!
3.5 stars rounded up as this is a debut novel. Highly readable. I’m having a hard time writing a review, and this is rarely the case. Mickey has just lost a flashy job as a writer for a struggling East Coast magazine. She feels her race, size, and personality played into this. To top it off, she was never given bad job reviews. Her partner is from a different family structure, and this leads to a disconnect in their relationship. Mickey is crushed, feeling left behind by colleagues and even her partner. BUT, and this irked me, she tends to wallow in self pity rather than fighting back. Her partner gets frustrated and the relationship suffers. Meanwhile Mickey goes home and faces skeletons from her past. Her dodgy choices irritated me. The cover blurb is deceptive. The real study is Mickey’s self awareness and the path she takes going forward.
Mickey’s life was finally going according to plan, and her flashy media job was bringing her dreams of being an influential writer within reach. But then she got fired. Furious enough to reveal the anti-Black racism she’d faced in her job, she posted a searing open letter online…which no one read. It isn’t until Mickey returns to her hometown and considers giving up her dream that drama in the industry draws her back in.
This is a quiet, complex, vulnerable novel about the real people behind viral moments. Mickey is messy and deeply imperfect, and this novel takes place during what might be the lowest point of her life. I think it's really powerful to show a raw, relatable character trying to decide if the career she's worked toward for her entire life is worth the pain it causes her. It's also got sapphic romantic drama, which is obviously extremely my shit!
This is a quiet, complex, vulnerable novel about the real people behind viral moments. Mickey is messy and deeply imperfect, and this novel takes place during what might be the lowest point of her life. I think it's really powerful to show a raw, relatable character trying to decide if the career she's worked toward for her entire life is worth the pain it causes her. It's also got sapphic romantic drama, which is obviously extremely my shit!
i’ve requested this ebook from the library at least five times and i m so glad i finally got to reading it because it’s easily one of my favourites this year. very steamy, and it kept me constantly wanting to know what comes next. definitely ends on several cliff hangers that i wish got tied up for my own curiosity, but i still highly recommend it! books like these always leave me wondering why i ever read stories that don’t feature 20-something bipoc queer main characters because they’re the best books hands down
“I just feel like you’re going to change the world…you changed mine.”