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juushikaTitle: We Were Witches
Author: Ariel Gore
Published: Amethyst Editions, 2017; Blackstone Audio, 2018
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 290
Total Page Count: 552,290
Text Number: 2070
Read Because: apparently this has been on my TBR since this 2018 Lesbrary review; audiobook and ebook borrowed from Multnomah County Library
Review: The author's story of her college years as a young single mother. This is fragmented autofiction, cut through with magical realism and retellings; I enjoy the willingness to manipulate the structure to create connections and juxtapositions. But the "just the good bits" approach renders simplified and repetitive the feminist themes, to their detriment; it feels exaggerated for dramatic effect even though it's probably not, and I never quite found my foothold in it.
I started this on audio and finished it on ebook, and recommend the latter over the former; the short sections and atypical formatting come across better in text.
Author: Ariel Gore
Published: Amethyst Editions, 2017; Blackstone Audio, 2018
Rating: 3 of 5
Page Count: 290
Total Page Count: 552,290
Text Number: 2070
Read Because: apparently this has been on my TBR since this 2018 Lesbrary review; audiobook and ebook borrowed from Multnomah County Library
Review: The author's story of her college years as a young single mother. This is fragmented autofiction, cut through with magical realism and retellings; I enjoy the willingness to manipulate the structure to create connections and juxtapositions. But the "just the good bits" approach renders simplified and repetitive the feminist themes, to their detriment; it feels exaggerated for dramatic effect even though it's probably not, and I never quite found my foothold in it.
I started this on audio and finished it on ebook, and recommend the latter over the former; the short sections and atypical formatting come across better in text.
