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A review by yanailedit
The House of Impossible Beauties by Joseph Cassara
4.0
Cassara is a skilled story-teller who brings a profoundly compassionate perspective to a dark part of queer history. It rises above all the tidy sensationalization and glamorization to punch you right in the heart with a fine-tuned balance of tragedy and the small moments that make life worth it...
It'll make you think long and hard about the weight of social rejection.
Highly recommended.
PS: One of the reviewers I saw before deciding to read this book called Cassara's use of 'randomly thrown in Spanish words' (rough paraphrasing) clumsy. Nothing could be further from the truth; the author does a fantastic job of representing vernacular voices without which the book would be every bit as sterile as mainstream accounts of queer culture tend to be.
It'll make you think long and hard about the weight of social rejection.
Highly recommended.
PS: One of the reviewers I saw before deciding to read this book called Cassara's use of 'randomly thrown in Spanish words' (rough paraphrasing) clumsy. Nothing could be further from the truth; the author does a fantastic job of representing vernacular voices without which the book would be every bit as sterile as mainstream accounts of queer culture tend to be.