Tomboyland: Essays by Melissa Faliveno
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a hard book to read. Not because of the writing style, which is excellent, poetic, and very clear, but because of the subject matter. Faliveno takes on subjects that can be gut wrenching, especially in the current political climate. Sexuality. Guns. The environment. She makes them all personal. And she's not apologetic about offending either side of an issue, or for that matter, both sides.

For those who are interested in questions of genré, this work challenges the notion of what makes a piece of writing an essay and a memoir. I found myself questioning such notions throughout the book. Of course, there is always the notion of "What difference does it make?"

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