A review by chillcox15
Mean by Myriam Gurba

5.0

A brilliantly written autofiction, Myriam Gurba's Mean tracks the author's coming of age in a society that physically preys on women, and especially women of color. You know, ours. It captures a full range of emotions, but what most stuck out to me was how good Gurba is at crafting jokes, both microjokes of a few words or less, and macrojokes that she sets up over the course of the entire work. This is maybe the single funniest books of the year, and it only speaks to Gurba's strength as a writer that the humor feels perfectly in tune with the depth of other, more somber emotions running through the book.