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A review by leighbeevee
Black Wave by Michelle Tea
5.0
I have a soft spot for Michelle Tea. When I was a baby dyke, I devoured her poetry and Valencia and Rent Girl. I hear rumblings she is problematic, but that might just the loud rustling from the tenderqueer echo chamber.
I found this book compelling and dark. It has a wholly unlikeable main character who does awful things, is completely self-absorbed, an addict, and living in chaotic squalor. Which is, honestly, relatable. I feel like I was this main character in a past life, a few times removed. Her writing on the struggle to give up drinking deeply hit home. I can see this being the way the world ends, give or take a few dream sequences. All in all, this seemed more like a portal than a work of fiction.
I found this book compelling and dark. It has a wholly unlikeable main character who does awful things, is completely self-absorbed, an addict, and living in chaotic squalor. Which is, honestly, relatable. I feel like I was this main character in a past life, a few times removed. Her writing on the struggle to give up drinking deeply hit home. I can see this being the way the world ends, give or take a few dream sequences. All in all, this seemed more like a portal than a work of fiction.