A review by cowgirltings
Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta

2.0

It's difficult to say what I think of this book...I have recently been trying to rate books holistically, not just based on the end. The end was satisfying, important, and beautiful, but it took me months to get to because of how many deep discomforts and questions about incongruities the book raised for me. Maybe those things are mostly good. Some of it was still just hard to read because it seemed repetitive, the supporting characters were constantly rotating but almost identical, and much of the plot felt stagnant. And yet the moments that shone shone brightly. Definitely a trudge of a book, but with vital and important moments. Big project, also interesting to have read this "autobiography" in conversation with other pieces of evidence of his lived experience his Uncollected Works. Overall, I wouldn't consider it a must-read, but valuable.