Ich bin beeindruckt. Trotz der wirklich schweren Themen wie den Tod eines nahestehenden Menschen und Medikamentensucht hat sich der Guncle als absolutes Wohlfühlbuch entpuppt, ohne die emotionalen Aspekte der Trauer herunterzuspielen. Ich habe zeitweise wirklich herzhaft gelacht, aber auch mit den Figuren mitgelitten. Definitiv ein Autor, den ich mir merken werde.
MY THERAPIST WILL BE HEARING ABOUT THIS! Because, for reasons I do not care to go into detail for, this was very much soft and profoundly softening to a great many fears I have and the waterworks were on high alert, but in the best possible way! It's about letting people in and letting yourself out into the world and about the most beautiful friendship I have read in a long time and it's about siblings in all the different ways and about letting someone go without forgetting them and about connection and about being a child yet about maturing and it's a love letter to the performing arts and literally all. of. the. things. The TWs are big ones and yet this was really lighthearted, mostly, sprinkled with profound, emotional conversations and all characters seemed so very real in their layers - even those that are far from center stage are given the courtesy of their actions being informed by a personal struggle or history or something. And that also sounds kinda heavy whilst this was such a joy to read. I dunno what to tell you, this was INCREDIBLE!!! TW: grief, mentioned deaths due to cancer and due to a car accident, (pill) addiction and rehab, mention of religiously motivated homophobia (not a central theme), brief recollection of a sexual assault, one ill-advised use of the word Pow wow, a significant amount of (social) drinking
Ich bin beeindruckt. Trotz der wirklich schweren Themen wie den Tod eines nahestehenden Menschen und Medikamentensucht hat sich der Guncle als absolutes Wohlfühlbuch entpuppt, ohne die emotionalen Aspekte der Trauer herunterzuspielen. Ich habe zeitweise wirklich herzhaft gelacht, aber auch mit den Figuren mitgelitten. Definitiv ein Autor, den ich mir merken werde.
