Karen Tongson

This book is good. It will be very helpful for my thesis, specifically Tongson's exquisite analysis of the implicit queerness of Karen Carpenter's life and voice. I wish this book were longer, I wish Tongson wrote a definitive biography that outshone the ones she references written by men, books I have no desire to read. I love a lot of this book, but some of it bored me. I look forward to reading more of Tongson's work, however, and appreciate this book as a queer person who looks to the past, to the "women of a certain age" sub-genre that gets a chuckle from some of my family members of earlier generations, to seek solace for loneliness and confusion about my trans identity. Three stars but a secure place in my heart; a stimulating nugget in my brain.… (meer)