This was an incredible read. Such important messages for all of us queers. My only regret is not reading it sooner!
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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

You need to read this book.
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Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
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challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I’ve put off reading Stone Butch Blues for a few years, knowing it would absolutely destroy me! The narrators feelings of pain and isolation stayed with me even when I wasn’t reading, I felt like I was inside the book even after I’d put it down. I doubt there will be a book that has an impact as deep as Leslie’s Stone Butch Blues has had. 
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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

theresa was wack btw
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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Casts a curious glance at the prisms of gender and sexuality, how they intertwine and separate. Also deals with praxis in regards to labor politics in a way that related queer memoir(ish) works often neglect to. 
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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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