Scan barcode
A review by sophiamellink08
Growing Up Queer in Australia by Benjamin Law
4.0
This was definitely an affirming read, and very eye-opening to perspectives that I haven’t considered before.
The essays in this novel were often short and very readable, allowing me to squeeze in little bits of reading here and there, even when I didn’t have a lot of time. The accounts in this book are painfully honest and sometimes confronting— but reading them fostered an immense solidarity.
Migrant accounts, and stories written by Indigenous Australians about what it was like to grow up LGBTQI+ in Australia were especially compelling— I really enjoyed the process of learning those histories. Overall, this book definitely does what it set out to do— I wish I’d read this book when I was growing up, and am glad for having done so now.
The essays in this novel were often short and very readable, allowing me to squeeze in little bits of reading here and there, even when I didn’t have a lot of time. The accounts in this book are painfully honest and sometimes confronting— but reading them fostered an immense solidarity.
Migrant accounts, and stories written by Indigenous Australians about what it was like to grow up LGBTQI+ in Australia were especially compelling— I really enjoyed the process of learning those histories. Overall, this book definitely does what it set out to do— I wish I’d read this book when I was growing up, and am glad for having done so now.