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Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
beccaruthe's review against another edition
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.25
bennificial's review against another edition
emotional
fast-paced
4.5
Sad but good. Kind of about nothing but also an abuse survivor story and a queer story. Hard to read but quick enough thats it’s not too bad.
lsparrow's review
5.0
Sometimes when you go to a book reading and think - "this is gonna be so great" you go home and read it and realise all the best parts were read at the reading and it really doesn't feel the same without the author's physical voice - but this book was every bit as good as the reading!
I loved the journey that was the book.
Also I love books that are written in Toronto - this city that is my home.
I loved the journey that was the book.
Also I love books that are written in Toronto - this city that is my home.
thelibraryskeeper's review
4.0
Its really incredible everything Leah went through to become the person she is today.
This memoir is raw and extremely emotional. It is written in a way that makes it feel like a collection of stories or memories. Her struggles waiting for her immigration landed status to be approved, her hunger, the fear, her past, all of it is so vividly written. Through her struggles and perseverance she learns who she is, her identity as a femme and a woman of color. It was tough to read this book only because of all the raw emotions and pain the author has gone through. As the reader you can really feel it all.
I'm glad I accidentally found this book while looking for something else on my libraries website.
This memoir is raw and extremely emotional. It is written in a way that makes it feel like a collection of stories or memories. Her struggles waiting for her immigration landed status to be approved, her hunger, the fear, her past, all of it is so vividly written. Through her struggles and perseverance she learns who she is, her identity as a femme and a woman of color. It was tough to read this book only because of all the raw emotions and pain the author has gone through. As the reader you can really feel it all.
I'm glad I accidentally found this book while looking for something else on my libraries website.
choi_lacroix's review
fast-paced
2.75
Idk there's something really Western and white and pink-washing about nonconsensually referring to your brown dad a "f*g" bc he hints at his sexuality in a way the author interprets as queer. Feels like even though they didn't mean it disrespectfully, it was a choice made in bad taste. For that and other reasons, I lost a lot of respect for Piepzna-Samarasinha as a writer even though a younger version of myself really enjoyed reading Care Work.