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A review by readingissosexy
Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place by Scott McClanahan
3.0
Parts of this felt a bit ~John Green, with a few passages I would've posted on Tumblr in 2011 but roll my eyes at now. Other parts were beautiful, earnest, & funny.
Scott McClanahan is a sentimental; so am I. We are kindred spirits, terrified by the passage of time. Every few pages or so, he'd express something just the way I feel it.
That being said, I did sorta have a hard time staying fully invested in a story neither completely real nor completely made up, where truth existed in some unknown middle.
I had a hard time with it, even while recognizing it as the only real way to tell a story. The separation between memory & the stories we want to be true are paper thin.
Scott McClanahan is a sentimental; so am I. We are kindred spirits, terrified by the passage of time. Every few pages or so, he'd express something just the way I feel it.
That being said, I did sorta have a hard time staying fully invested in a story neither completely real nor completely made up, where truth existed in some unknown middle.
I had a hard time with it, even while recognizing it as the only real way to tell a story. The separation between memory & the stories we want to be true are paper thin.