guiltyfeat 's review for:

4.0

This has been on my radar since before it came out and David Rakoff was on This American Life talking in verse. It took me a while to acquire it, just because, and then it sat for a while until I read Alexander Chee's The Queen of the Night last week and in the Acknowledgments Chee said that Rakoff inspired him to write the book while telling him the story of Jenny Lind.

This was wonderful and devastating and just all round sad-making.

Favourite rhyming couplet: seance-crayons