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A review by irismessenger_
Your Love Is Not Good by Johanna Hedva
5.0
Epically beautiful, smart, and cool. I loved being in the head of a successful yet still struggling artist, surrounded by an industry of people that want something from her, and artist peers that try to control her actions. There's a entrancing rebellious spirit to this book.
The commentary is powerful too. Money and power inducing anxiety--- labor and identity in the beautiful/messy creation of art. And what to do with your own identity when others want control over it.
Then there's the queer erotic pulse of world-consuming-muses, but also hits this obsessive, neurotic, (and queer) pull to that which you can't have (straight girls).
In the publicity the book was compared to Han Kang and Clarice Lispector, so I expected a lot from it, but I found that the prose was entirely intoxicating. The story flowed, as the fragments of her life as an artist pieced themselves together. Her own tale wisely incased in writing about the lives of the people around her and the family that abandoned each other.
The commentary is powerful too. Money and power inducing anxiety--- labor and identity in the beautiful/messy creation of art. And what to do with your own identity when others want control over it.
Then there's the queer erotic pulse of world-consuming-muses, but also hits this obsessive, neurotic, (and queer) pull to that which you can't have (straight girls).
In the publicity the book was compared to Han Kang and Clarice Lispector, so I expected a lot from it, but I found that the prose was entirely intoxicating. The story flowed, as the fragments of her life as an artist pieced themselves together. Her own tale wisely incased in writing about the lives of the people around her and the family that abandoned each other.