About Music from Another World:
IMHO: Music from Another World
Music From Another World follows two girls in two vastly different families and communities as they come of age in the summer of Harvey Milk in California.
I really appreciate that each journal entry begins and ends differently so you can easily track who's who in the beginning and just get into the flow easier.
The romance is the slowest burn of friends to lovers and it's all very chaste.
Tammy and Sharon and Peter and the feminist bookshop crew and the punk clubs are all so amazing. I was swept up with them and finished this so quickly. My heart was in my throat for the last quarter of the book, I swear.
I love Talley's acknowledgements about how this book came to be. This feels so right and important at the moment, to show it's always been a fight of ups and downs, illustrating truly how far we've come and rejuvenating for the next battle.
The talk of how unfathomable it was then that mom could love her gay son wrecked me.
This is the first book I've actually read by Talley, though several are on my virtual and literal to be read shelves. I'm now more motivated than ever to tackle her backlist.
FAv Quotes from Music From Another World:
I'd feel wrong calling you "Mr.Milk."
I was already worried enough about him without having to worry about how worried she was.
When the newspapers printed that the big hero who'd stopped the assassinations attempt was gay, his parents disowned him. He sued the papers for ruining his life.
But if this Curtis boy could make my brother smile that way...well, I didn't see how that could be a bad thing, whether or not it matched up with what my teachers said.
There are few things that terrify me more than my aunt being happy, Harvey.
It was the same energy I'd felt the night of the march. The sounds and smells and sensations of the club crawled inside my veins, exactly the way the chants had from the crowd that night.
And as I turned my back, pushed my way through the thrumming crowd and walked out into the nighttime chill, there was a buzz of pleasant, unfamiliar hope thrumming under my skin, too.
It's as though Patti Smith lives in a different world, and it's a scary world, but it's also realin in a way that this world isn't.
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This review was originally posted on The Layaway Dragon