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whatsmacksaid's review against another edition
I started this a week ago and only made it to page 38. I just can't get into it, and it's due back to the library soon, so I'm giving up. It's not bad by any stretch of the imagination, but each entry requires meditation and reflection upon finishing it, and I just don't have the attention or energy for that right now. I like to think I'll return to this sometime in the future when I do, but it's iffy.
rayshea's review against another edition
5.0
Reading a book about surviving a plague in one of my favorite places while being locked down during a plague in one of my other favorite places. This book is really fucking beautiful.
lifeinpoetry's review against another edition
5.0
This lyrical meditation felt timely, considering it's a book about finding refuge in a plague, and was released (and read) while the world goes through one. Obviously the public, medical, and government response was completely underwhelming if not outright malicious for the AIDs crisis in comparison to our situation now. Later
jackieeh's review against another edition
4.0
Such a moving meditation on a place and time. I’m grateful to have gone to Provincetown for the first time last summer, so it was easy to feel myself there again.
patrickhackett's review against another edition
4.0
I picked this up at the beginning of quarantine and it sat on my nightstand for months. I could only get through a few pages at a time, despite the beauty of Lisicky's prose and the book being set in one of my favorite places (Provincetown <3), because I could basically only get through books if they were audiobooks. Part of me is glad I didn't try to slog through it because I plowed through the second half of the book when I returned from spending 2.5 months at my parent's in Illinois and was really able to savor the writing in a way that I just wasn't able to in the early quarantine days. Recommend.