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Kim Addonizio is my favorite poet, but this book missed the mark for me.
I have mixed feelings about this book and would really give it more of a 2.5 star rating. It was the setting that drew me in—late 80s and 90s New York City and all of its excesses—and it was the setting (and the Michael Alig tie-in, after watching the film Glory Daze a few years ago) that is probably the reason I managed to keep reading and finish the book. It reminded me of my experience reading Otessa Moshfegh’s “My Year on Rest and Relaxation” in that I found the protagonists largely unlikeable (although the did grow on me toward the end) and the author painfully pretentious. Another reviewer described it as “overstuffed” and I think that’s a perfect word to describe it. There were so many parts of this book that seemed shoehorned in un an attempt by the author to make himself sound oh so cultured and intelligent but were unnecessary and even irrelevant. Still, it was a nice enough story of coming-of-age and friendship, and I enjoyed the “club kid” aspects just as much as I expected to.
