Book Review HOW TO WRESTLE A GIRL Venita Blackburn
I found HOW TO WRESTLE A GIRL by Verita Blackburn on the Libby app. Check for your local library on the app and read great books for free!📚 Several of the stories share a narrating character and her striving for clarity about her sexual identity at varyious stages of her life, and even further, this narrator's object of fascination, Ezparanza. Some of the other stories are more difficult to connect to this core of the collection, but for the repeated theme of criticism of the patriarchy's force and authority on queer existence. The audiobook is read by a group of individuals, who each perform their stories beautifully. Some, brilliantly. I recommend this form for a short, gripping listen. Mini reviews of the contained stories: 1. "Part I: Fam" A brilliant very short piece on internalized anti-blackness. 2. "Bear Bear Harvest" Cousins are plentiful in all the ways, in numbers and size and feelings, just roaming through the house like mad geese,...