Literary fiction that is both historical and has a bit of a speculative element. Coming of age in the impoverished, queer, artistic fringe of the Black Atlantic in the 1990s, coupled with an unexpected look at the burgeoning surveillance culture of that era. Captures the feel of a moment that is passing, of a time when you could drop out and still scrounge together some sort of life in a world city like London, before the intensified triumph of markets and carcerality in the following decades. Has a reveal towards the end that…well, without saying too much, that re-frames some of the earlier part of the book in interesting ways. I didn’t feel like it needed that, to be honest, but I didn’t object. Overall, I liked it. Well written and pleasantly weird.
Originally posted by Scott on Goodreads.