A review by cmestevez
Self-Portrait with Boy by Rachel Lyon

3.0

3.5 stars! There are some scenes that I’m sure are supposed to be “symbolic” but that felt largely unnecessary (i.e. the vivid & disturbing description of the rats). I would have also liked for the author to have spent more time exploring Kate and Lu’s relationship and giving the readers something to feel a true loss over. Their relationship seemed too insignificant to be the crux of the book, as the last line indicates.