A review by audaciaray
Clown Girl by Monica Drake

1.0

I am drawn to books about people living on the fringes of culture but the protagonist of this book is a twenty something down on her luck white girl living in (aka gentrifying) a "bad" (aka full of poor people of color) neighborhood and being a clown. There's a lot of hand wringing over whether she will or will not do one or both of two terrible things: date a cop she's flirting with (ohgodnoooo) and do clown fetish related sex work (obvs not an exciting moral dilemma to this reader). The writing is fun and lively enough that I was considering reading through to the end but I am full of too much loathing for this character so NOPE.