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Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist by Cecilia Gentili
2 reviews
jarku's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.5
Faltas is unflinching but may accessibly illuminate, for cis or straight readers, how queerness is entangled with sex work is inextricable from sexism--and how (further amplified by class and colorism!) transmisogyny shapes lives from the first breath.
For trans readers seeking elders, the thread of narrative flows with objective coherence through Gentili's childhood as she stumbles through matter-of-fact formative horrors. Addressing the reader in second person, she offers us the chance to watch through the eyes of her kin and community as she comes into her power, claiming a piece of her world before inevitably outgrowing it. Gentili was a gifted storyteller, possessing a singular emotional affinity with her audience: she withholds and repeats details and motifs to heartbreaking effect. We are poorer that there will be no sequel to this innovatively honest debut memoir.
The prose of these letters is more verbatim than ~literary~, which does not alone detract from its merit. However, somehow this makes the work suffer more than it would otherwise from too many little copyediting errors (sentences without periods, someone appearing as "Jiminez" and reappearing as "Jimenez," etc)--hopefully a second edition will relieve these, and I'll be able to shake that snobby judgment that voice-to-text had a hand in assembling this text.
For trans readers seeking elders, the thread of narrative flows with objective coherence through Gentili's childhood as she stumbles through matter-of-fact formative horrors. Addressing the reader in second person, she offers us the chance to watch through the eyes of her kin and community as she comes into her power, claiming a piece of her world before inevitably outgrowing it. Gentili was a gifted storyteller, possessing a singular emotional affinity with her audience: she withholds and repeats details and motifs to heartbreaking effect. We are poorer that there will be no sequel to this innovatively honest debut memoir.
The prose of these letters is more verbatim than ~literary~, which does not alone detract from its merit. However, somehow this makes the work suffer more than it would otherwise from too many little copyediting errors (sentences without periods, someone appearing as "Jiminez" and reappearing as "Jimenez," etc)--hopefully a second edition will relieve these, and I'll be able to shake that snobby judgment that voice-to-text had a hand in assembling this text.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Sexual content, Homophobia, Pedophilia, Rape, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual violence, Toxic friendship, and Transphobia
Moderate: Murder and Alcoholism
emtk2118's review
challenging
emotional
funny
fast-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Sexual assault, Rape, Pedophilia, Sexual violence, and Adult/minor relationship
Moderate: Torture, Vomit, Sexual content, Homophobia, Hate crime, Infidelity, and Physical abuse
Minor: Abortion, Alcoholism, and Murder
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