Felicia Berliner's Shmutz
After that last book, I wanted to read something completely different, and a novel about a Hasidic girl addicted to porn felt like as far as I could get. Great narrative voice here, though the Jewish characters felt way better written than the non-Jewish characters (so much potential with the protagonist befriending a group of goth kids, and it was all pretty flat). The middle kind of bogged down/got depressing—the blurbs made me think this would be horny, but it wasn’t really; as it goes on the porn watching becomes pretty joyless. I did think the way it wrapped up was interesting. I will be curious to see what the author does next. B+.
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