A review by cubaitlubin
How to Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom by Johanna Hedva

challenging informative reflective tense

3.75

A relative of radical nonfiction like The Future Is Disabled with elements of memoir like White Magic, an inward and outward look at disability and illness and queerness and trauma read by the author. I picked this up based on samiam_reading's glowing recommendation. Some chapters hit harder than others for me - the titular chapter, Sick Woman Theory, and Can I Hit You? all had back-to-back moments where I had to pause and take notes of big ideas or punchy statements that got me thinking. I usually don't have trouble with nonfiction in audio format but I think Hedva's writing is so detailed and creative it became easy to miss things here and there, so I might have enjoyed it more in print. This book is for everyone, but might especially resonate with those who identify as anti-capitalist, queer, kinky, crip, or radical.