On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

suffice to say i did not understand this book at all, and i think that's what makes it good. the fact that i did not understand it made it beautiful, more real. i felt like there were so many explorations of things, like race, loss, and to be queer. i loved the metaphors and the word play and the way that, to me, nothing made sense. i feel too dumb to comprehend this book and that makes it 10x better. i feel like the timeline was scattered, i never knew how old he was in the scene i was reading (if it was not specified) and everything was just there, splayed out onto the page, into a non-chronological mess of events. it was trevor this, then back to lan, and then to himself. it was all over the place and i think that sudden switch from scene to scene made things good. the book was harsh and sometimes said things literally, while other times not saying anything explicit at all. i wanna be able to write like this one day.