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on 196 he talks about not understanding that he was loved because it wasn’t in the ways he thought it would be. that he was searching for the traditional love that came from someone not traumatized…i really loved this and related to it.

‘let the church say amen’ almost had me teary eyed.

starting ‘we sing sin.’

‘arena’ and ‘sandalwood’ were super strong back-to-back chapters…two of my favorite so far.

i finished ‘we real cool’ and am about to start ‘we our late.’ i think it’s very clever and cool that brian split up his novel into sections from the poem, “we real cool” by gwendolyn brooke’s. when he was my prof, he had us read it. the ‘we real cool’ section was incredible.

he has some really great lines and scene writing in here.

stunning writing. this is refreshing after reading diary of an oxygen thief…that writing was…welp.