Switch

by Carol Guess

Switch explores the strange nature of passion and unravels the "normalcy" of a midwestern landscape.

Genres: Fiction, LGBT

265 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1998

Reviews

[Kat · Rating 5 out of 5]

A "pansexual anthem," perhaps. This book is beautiful and not in print anymore and will always be pigeonholed as a lesbian novel, and it is that, and also a working-class-Middle-America, getting-by-through-relishing-small-pleasures, everyone-has-secret-lives-and-loves novel. Knocked my proverbial socks off.

[Bib]

Did not finish reading.

[Lina Ahrens · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very weird. Maybe too weird? The author’s writing is beautiful, sensual, touching - the incest chapter was a bit too strange for me maybe. But oh well

[Ryan Mishap · Rating 3 out of 5]

This odd novel is set in Cartwheel Indiana and most of it takes place in people's heads. Different characters speak, which I always like in a novel, but the main one is Caddie who works as a waitress in a unique diner. She falls for a womin living as a man. Guess is very good at giving us a peak into people's thoughts and emotions, and adept at presenting the unsettling in an ordinary manner, as you'll see when the book takes twists and turns unexpected.

[Keisha · Rating 4 out of 5]

addicting

[Kali · Rating 2 out of 5]

The desolate, lost-in-nowhere, heteronormative small town America setting was so bleak that I couldn't get into the plot & gave up about half way through.

[Christina]

I like her writing style but decided to put it down because it wasn't fitting my reading mood at the time. Maybe someday I'll get back to it.

[Zane Carey · Rating 4 out of 5]

A world wind of a read