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A review by jonapelson
She of the Mountains by Vivek Shraya
4.0
Y'all I'm torn on this one. I enjoyed it ... and I think a lot of it went right over my head. I found the drawings interesting and a provoking addition and really enjoyed the main characters descent towards the end of the book. What I really think I missed out on were the parallel chapters on the retelling of the Hindu deities (which I looked up and was told that that was what it was). My ignorance is definitely showing, but! all in all I found this to be a short, engaging read and quite a lot of it stuck with me, surprisingly. I'd be curious to see how others would gauge it though.
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"But with the absence of a language, of a label, came an unfortunate implication: shame"
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"But queer spoke to all the other spaces and moments his body and heart didn't fit into...he could be everything all at once. Ironically, queer meant whole"
"He wondered what it would feel like to look at himself and see what she saw, to shine as she did, or at least feel a lightness in his body"
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"But with the absence of a language, of a label, came an unfortunate implication: shame"
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"But queer spoke to all the other spaces and moments his body and heart didn't fit into...he could be everything all at once. Ironically, queer meant whole"
"He wondered what it would feel like to look at himself and see what she saw, to shine as she did, or at least feel a lightness in his body"