A review by blaineduncan
Body Drop: Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling by Brian Oliu

5.0

Mysterious and heartbreaking, Brian Oliu’s book taps into the universal nature of what it is to live but does so through the lens of professional wrestling. The shifts here are sudden and playful as he reckons with what’s real both in wrestling and in each of our lives, as he reckons with himself.

Using tropes in wrestling to discuss the tropes of life, Oliu presents readers with the starkness that the cruelty of the real world can be much worse than what’s in the ring.

This is an excellent, beautiful book; it’s for a wrestling fan or a fan of life’s mysteries.