A review by jennywithaz
Indestructible Object by Mary McCoy

4.0

"It's a love story about confessional poets and thwarted playwrights, about sad rock stars and tattoo artists who are fighting with their kids, about messy bisexuals and untidy queers and evangelical Christians who make podcasts about art and girl who write beautiful songs in their bedrooms. About old lovers, new lovers, friends.

I think it's a story worth telling."

This book took me a little while to get into (unlike [b:I, Claudia|30734222|I, Claudia|Mary McCoy|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1526069005l/30734222._SX50_.jpg|51273698] which had me hooked from the start) but around the midway point it found its groove and by the end I found myself agreeing that indeed, this was a story worth telling. Lots of great quotes here, and a lot of big thoughts about the nature of art, and love -- not knowing exactly what it means to you and how you relate to it, or to who you are as a person in a constant state of evolution. It's about the messiness of finding yourself and then figuring out a way to express yourself to the world and the people around you.

"Maybe humans aren't made to expereince love, I think. We never evolved the kind of telepathy it seems to require."

"Boil the whole of human existence down to its essence, and what you have is how we feel about each other and what we decide to do about it. Even if it ends. Even if we end up regretting it."

"But when you've loved someone, some version of it lasts. It keeps being important. It lives somewhere within you, and in that way, you carry the people you've loved along with you, not just in your memories, but in the person you are."