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Bestiary by K-Ming Chang

3 reviews

gabybenitez's review

challenging dark funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I don’t even know where to start! this book is a masterpiece. an exercise in wildness. k-ming chang bends language to create new ways of looking at the world in all of her work. bestiary reshapes human as animal, animal as earth, earth as body — and I have never read a book that  so truthfully tells what it is to have a body! bestiary is full of the language of the body, of trauma and violence, of prayer, of desire and want, of orifices and bodily fluids. a book about rewriting and revising ancestral / generational trauma. and the queer eroticism! a book that is so queer and yet the queerness is not a plot point/place of conflict — we love to see it! the candor and humor in this book is also impeccable —

some favorite quotes:
“all men are synonyms and none the word you’re looking for”

“costco: the only place in the country where you could buy your cradle and your casket”

 “if the body is really mostly water, then how come it can burn ?”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse

Moderate: Sexual assault and War

readingpicnic's review

5.0

I’ve never read a book with so much pissing in it

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Animal death, Child abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Animal cruelty, Body horror, Excrement, Sexual assault, War, Domestic abuse, Gore, Blood, and Violence

meganzc's review

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Child death, Colonisation, Cursing, Death, Dementia, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Excrement, Gore, Grief, Gun violence, Incest, Infertility, Infidelity, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Rape, Racism, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Violence, and Vomit