I just finished reading “I will greet the sun again” by Khashayar J. Khabushani. Such a beautiful layered book about a young queer iranian boy growing up in LA with his family In the 90’s/00’s. Some of the reviews say it’s devastating and beautiful. It really is. I left it with knots in my stomach and a real want for freedom. What are some of your recommendations?
at 1st the only sunny books i could think of were Klara and the Sun (sad), Dry (traumatising) and The God of Small Things (sad & traumatic but sooo beautiful - these r all great books but this 1 is leagues ahead)
i started typing this hoping i would have some cheerier recs by the time i got to this point but i think that’s it.. that’s all i have in me…… it seems i simply associate the sun with soul-crushing devastation
- I don’t know if this counts slash if it will help but I have been highlighting so much of The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller and for me it has done wonders to teach me to process and work through grief its proximity to love
- Romance novels if you need something less heavy: Divine Rivals, Honey & Spice, Love Theoretically
- Hanif Abdurraqib once posted the below on instagram and it’s so beautiful !!
the goldfinch - donna tartt
- my favourite novel of all time. it puts my sorry ass into perspective the setting sun - osamu dazai
- a pi.fyi rec !! pretty prose… waiting for the cryfest regarding the pain of others - susan sontag
- there is feeling pain yourself and then there is the empathy of watching someone in pain and trying to imagine that pain on to yourself. basically no matter how hard you try, it’s never done justice from our privileged position of not being in pain. thinking abojt this in regards to the shared images of the Palestinian and Sudanese genocide
A tattoo I recently did on a dear friend. I want to do more of this. As an artist finding people who would want this style feels like a bit of a challenge.
