Fiona Alison Duncan
Paperback | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 3.77 | 173 Users | 35 Reviews
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| Title | : | Exquisite Mariposa |
| Author | : | Fiona Alison Duncan |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | October 1st 2019 by Soft Skull Press |
| Categories | : | Fiction. GLBT. Queer. Gender |
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Given the initials F.A.D. at birth, Fiona Alison Duncan has always had an eye for observing the trends around her. But after years of trying to please others, looking for answers in books and astrological charts, and clocking endless hours as a celebrity journalist just to make rent, Fiona discovers another way of existing: in the Real, a phenomenological state few humans live in.Fiona's journey to the Real takes her to Koreatown, Los Angeles, where she sublets a room in La Mariposa. There she meets a cast of friends and lovers, like Amalia, an artist whose muse is her pet pigeon; Lucien, an infamous philanderer; and Morgan, whose anxiety keeps her from ever sitting still. When Fiona is offered the chance to turn her new household into a reality TV show, she jumps at the opportunity―but it isn't long before she begins to question this new script.
In the midst of her Saturn Return, Fiona pulls the plug on the reality TV deal, heals a few addictions, and returns to writing with Exquisite Mariposa, a debut novel starring her housemates as they ask questions of survival, art, love, language, and the possibilities of rewriting one's life.
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| Original Title: | Exquisite Mariposa |
| ISBN: | 1593765789 (ISBN13: 9781593765781) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 3.77 From 173 Users | 35 ReviewsPiece About Books Exquisite Mariposa
This novel taught me so much about myself, which is usually what I'm looking for in a book. I found it through recommendation of Hari Nef (queen) and the meditations on womanhood, self discovery, and friendship were so astute and needed. The narrator Fiona was relatable in the best ways because I saw the best and worst of myself in her without being too scared or too excited about it. I hadn't thought that much about growing up into a woman before I read her gender meditations because it alwaysmanifesto-like, a love letter to the Real.i love the anti-Cusk narrative voice if you can excuse such a term. total brainworm!
Cats are evil, too, and I love them. So maybe its okay that I am what I am. Were predators, daydreamers, slinky, dethroned royalty, cuddly only when we say.
This was a super mixed bag - literally ever few pages I oscillated between this is great/beautiful/insightful and this is dumb/trite manic pixie/cishetnonsense. It reminded me of So Many Ways to Sleep Badly and Michelle Tea, except a cis woman who only dates cis men hanging out with mostly cis women who mostly date cis men, so not great.
no thoughts head empty
We need more lit about the times we're living in.
spent the entire time reading feeling like i was missing the point of etc etc and finished feeling more or less the same but also maybe that it was just too goopy/media/self involved for me also maybe just not well written
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