A review by laura_sackton
Love the World Or Get Killed Trying by Alvina Chamberland

This was…something. A lot. I started it in March, set it aside, then restarted it. I loved the first 80 or so pages. The voice of this trans woman on the edge of her 30th birthday, traveling around, talking shit, talking about all of her woes and all the shit she deals with, being super honest and upfront and angry and snarky, going on and on about her obsessions, her thoughts about queer and trans culture, her thoughts and feelings about dating as a trans woman, all her thoughts about men and sex and transphobia…like, I was so into it. She is so funny, so brash, she tells it like it is, the book is full of ALL CAPS and asides and weird little stories and all these tangents into her obsessions, books she loves, crushes, etc. The book is weird, totally singular, there isn’t really a plot, it’s just being inside this woman’s mind as she writes and talks. 

I couldn’t really stay with it for 250 pages, but I think this was more to do with my mood when I was reading it than the book. It’s a trip, totally unique, voicey and wild.