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A review by rat
Sarah by J.T. LeRoy
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
Sarah is gorgeous and it deserves five-stars, sadly LeRoy rips this from me. He rips away from me any sense of closure or simplicity that I crave in a novel. As fiction, Sarah is well written, encapsulates the messiness of being a child in a horrifying situation. LeRoy does an amazing job asking the reader about nature vs. nurture, and also the notion of gender.
But I can't give LeRoy this, the second he published his as a memoir was the second that made this book impossible to like. By publishing this novel as truth LeRoy grants himself authority of the subject of prostitution and I find this horribly disrespectful to the real people out there going through this. When Sarah ended I was left feeling so listless, I knew these characters are not real, but I cry as if they were. I feel so robbed of this whole story,.., and I can't fully explain it.
Note: Although LeRoy isnt real, I'm using he/him pronouns from him to differentiate him, as a persona, away from the real Laura Albert.