A review by erinphillips613
A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

3.0

This is a hard book. I wanted to like it, as the essays are often intrusively personal and vulnerable, but I can't help but feel like the writing is kind of pretentious. Often the author either directly quotes or paraphrases other writers, while going off on streams-of-consciousness which are not clearly connected to a realistic touch point, while calling this a memoir. The best parts were the actual stories of BRB's life, but those are like one or two sentence nuggets amidst paragraphs of weird imagery.