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Thursday, November 30, 2023
[New post] Book Review: Tea Leaves
IndieBookView posted: " Tea Leaves by Jacob Budenz Genre: Literary Fiction / Short Stories ISBN: 9781612942759 Print Length: 250 pages Publisher: Bywater Books Reviewed by Michael J. DeLuca Jacob Budenz's debut short fiction collection Tea Leaves " Independent Book Review
Jacob Budenz's debut short fiction collection Tea Leaves is full of gay men and women who are deeply unsure of themselves and their roles in interpersonal relationships and the world, at times terminally so. It's full of lapsed-Catholic guilt and self-recrimination, gleeful witchcraft, and the Delta South. If any of that sounds remotely accessible to you, I'm willing to bet you'll find these stories--as I did--hitting unexpectedly close to home.
Budenz's writing makes me uncomfortable in ways that taught me things about myself I didn't know I still needed to learn: things about the impacts of prejudice and hate and the need to break from a destructive social status quo that assumes these rote cruelties as its default. The writing is eminently self-aware, wry, and subtle, satirizing straight (in both senses of the word) and corporate culture liberally, and I frequently found myself belly-laughing out loud in places and at ideas I entirely did not expect.
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