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Fiction. LGBT Studies. Asian American Studies. In this daring first novel, tour-de-force experiments in narrative structure, pidgin, and perspective roll every "are," throwing new light on gay identity and the trauma of assimilation. "The prose is delirious, dense, and florid. The kids bloom in rapid-fire stories, blossoming like flowers in hothouse air. Their talk is dizzying, full of sex, television, and cheap, glamorous dreams. It's Our Town in the American 1970s"—Matthew Stadler.
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Larry Freiherr
reviewed Rolling the R's on April 23, 2008
Rolling the R's
This book is fragmented the way childhood feels. about a community of (mostly) genderqueer pilipina kids living in hawaii in the seventies. lots of pop culture references mixed with religion mixed with violence and poetry and school and assimilation and family. there is a lot of unprocessed abuse in here, raw and confusing like it feels as a kid. kids leading other kids into violent situations thinking they are helping. kids still being kids pretending to be charlie's angels, arguing over who gets to play which part, who's the prettiest, the toughest, the best singer, the worldliest. it's interesting because in the beginning i kept trying to figure out who the main character was and then i realized it kept switching and all the characters are connected, they live in a small community and everybody's stories flow into each other. except maybe a couple - like the freshman in high school who is a straight a student and comes to school dressed like farrah fawcet. who was he?
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