Refuse edition by Elliott DeLine Gen Thomas Literature Fiction eBooks
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Dean, 22 years old and transgender, is no LGBT poster boy. Unemployed, depressed, mid-transition, friendless, and still living in the upstairs bedroom of his parents’ house in a conservative suburb, he can think of little to do but write his memoir. In the third person, he tells the tale of his would-be love affair with his college roommate, Colin, another trans man with a girlfriend and a successful indie rock band. The plot is interrupted intermittently by Dean’s first person commentary, often criticizing middle-class conformity—but also the queer counterculture from which he feels equally alienated. He is obsessed with Morrissey of The Smiths and wants nothing in life other than the same level of fame. As his far-fetched dreams become a foreseeable reality, he must decide between honesty and belonging, conformity or isolation, community or self.
Refuse is an urgent novel that speaks to the alienation of transgender youth and will ring true to many outsiders, over-thinkers, and underachievers. It tackles the pressing concerns of depression, suicide, unemployment, and discrimination, oscillating between irreverent wit and sincere confessions. A manifesto, a transgender narrative, a coming of age tale, a satire, an homage to a musical legend, and a star-crossed love story, Refuse is a singular work of trangender fiction. “DeLine,” says Out in Print Queer Book Reviews, “is a writer to watch.”
Refuse edition by Elliott DeLine Gen Thomas Literature Fiction eBooks
So many transgender novels I have read are light, humorous, safe, but not this one. The dark mood of this novel as an authenticity not often found in the genre, baring the self-absorbed and sarcastically pitiable world view of late adolescents. It follows transgender student Dean as he enters college and starts to find his fellow transmen. Obsessed with the British indie rock band The Smiths Dean is drawn to his new roommate, himself a musician bound for success in the indie rock industry, also a transman but one with a girl friend. Just like Real Life, the thrust of college life for Dean is the social environment rather than the classes, as a young person learns to cope in the world no longer dependent, albeit resentfully, on the family of origin, no longer able to rely on that excuse. Dean manages to make his way through it, more or less successfully, finding his place in his insular community of transmen and his voice as a writer.I'll be honest, I did not much care for Dean throughout much of this novel, but I know full well that liking a main character is not the point of reading a novel. I found him self-absorbed, adolescent, unstable, but then that's who he is.
Consider the lack of models for transgender people. Just who should Dean turn to for someone to show him how to be in the world? So often the only community we have is our peers, just as directionless and lost as we. How can I expect Dean to be wiser, more philosophical or more mature than those young people who have precedent to guide them?
His relationship with Teddy, a transwoman is the most moving part of the novel and showcases DeLine's exquisite prose as no other.
He placed the angel on the footer beside the silk plant. He realized it would seem a typical talisman to passersby, just as Theodore Patrick Foley would seem a typical man. The gesture felt powerful nonetheless. He curled up over the grave, hugging his knees. He put his lips to the dirt between the grass and closed his eyes. After a few moments, he whispered into the ground, a variation of something he’d accidentally memorized by heart “And alien tears will fill for her Pity’s long broken urn. For her mourners will be outcast men And outcasts always mourn.”
I am reminded that even people with whom I could never get along have some gift for me if I pay attention. In this case it is grace.
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Refuse edition by Elliott DeLine Gen Thomas Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
It was very educational
My first indie book and I loved it. It was so honest. Not like any other cis gender book I've read.
I disliked this book for various reason, but maybe the complete and utter lack of a point to it was one of them. Dean ends up exactly where he started, at home, alone. Somebody stated that he had managed his way on his own through college, at more than one point the author indicated Dean's lack of a job, lack of motivation, and reliance on his parents for his financial support. He was inept when he started his journey and he was inept when he left it.
The characters were seemed to be all stereotypes from Dean, to Vivian, to Colin, to Craig, to Adrian, the list goes on. Not one character did something unexpected or surprising or out-of-line with their particular brooding style. I think using FTMs as the main characters was a gimmick. I learned nothing new or insightful about what occurs with them or in their lives. If the attempt was to portray FTMs as being normal, I think the author missed the whole point of feeling FTM, at least for me.
Furthermore, and for this I think the editor is to blame and not the author, the amount of spacing errors, and spelling and grammar errors was a bit over the top for a book I paid $18 for. My comments are free, so I think people can deal with my errors, but at least clean up the tabs and spaces before putting out a book.
I kept reading because I thought it was going to go somewhere. it did, on the last page. too little, too late. a potentially good character, wasted.
This is an excellent book about a tg person who finds the strength to be true to himself. It is also an extremely well written novel, a philosophical journey through gender and an astute look at the pitfalls of relationships. It definitely keeps your interest.
Reading Refuse is a bit like getting slapped in the face after foregoing years of human contact. It is sharp but somehow soothing. DeLine creates a narrator who is part hubris, part self-loathing, but far more honest than most literary creatures. Painfully honest, the narrator begs for the reader's love, even while pushing the reader away. Refuse is a wonderful read.
I really liked this book. It is very well written and it kept me thinking. What more could l want? It kept me thinking a lot about all the various layers of gender, sexuality and identity. There is our genetic identity (XX, XY and etc); there is our physical appearance of male of female bits, which may or may not match our genetics; there is the gender we identify with; there is the gender we wish to show to the world; and there is how and who we wish to be sexually. All these are part of our definition but they do not define us. What this book beautifully shows is that the most important aspect of our identity may be our lived values. Now that is a question to ponder. In the end, may we define ourselves by the values we evince?
So many transgender novels I have read are light, humorous, safe, but not this one. The dark mood of this novel as an authenticity not often found in the genre, baring the self-absorbed and sarcastically pitiable world view of late adolescents. It follows transgender student Dean as he enters college and starts to find his fellow transmen. Obsessed with the British indie rock band The Smiths Dean is drawn to his new roommate, himself a musician bound for success in the indie rock industry, also a transman but one with a girl friend. Just like Real Life, the thrust of college life for Dean is the social environment rather than the classes, as a young person learns to cope in the world no longer dependent, albeit resentfully, on the family of origin, no longer able to rely on that excuse. Dean manages to make his way through it, more or less successfully, finding his place in his insular community of transmen and his voice as a writer.
I'll be honest, I did not much care for Dean throughout much of this novel, but I know full well that liking a main character is not the point of reading a novel. I found him self-absorbed, adolescent, unstable, but then that's who he is.
Consider the lack of models for transgender people. Just who should Dean turn to for someone to show him how to be in the world? So often the only community we have is our peers, just as directionless and lost as we. How can I expect Dean to be wiser, more philosophical or more mature than those young people who have precedent to guide them?
His relationship with Teddy, a transwoman is the most moving part of the novel and showcases DeLine's exquisite prose as no other.
He placed the angel on the footer beside the silk plant. He realized it would seem a typical talisman to passersby, just as Theodore Patrick Foley would seem a typical man. The gesture felt powerful nonetheless. He curled up over the grave, hugging his knees. He put his lips to the dirt between the grass and closed his eyes. After a few moments, he whispered into the ground, a variation of something he’d accidentally memorized by heart “And alien tears will fill for her Pity’s long broken urn. For her mourners will be outcast men And outcasts always mourn.”
I am reminded that even people with whom I could never get along have some gift for me if I pay attention. In this case it is grace.
That's All I Read, [...]
GLBT Bookshelf, [...]
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