The House of Impossible Beauties Lib/E (Audiobook)

from knownever

Why did you use the lives of people you don't know much about (the author spoke in interviews about not being able to attend any NYC ballroom events or contact any of the loved ones of the people he used as the inspirations for his characters), whose history is badly mis-remembered by most of the...

from BillieBook

I wanted to love it and I did love the characters, but for a novel supposedly about participants in New York's drag ball scene, there was very little mention of or time spent at the actual balls. There were also some mis-used words that took me out of the story for a moment. (Sorry I don't have a...

from lydia1879

An extravagant look into one particular House from the Harlem Ball Scene of the 1980's, Cassara's debut novel focuses on the royalty that is House Xtravaganza. It was certainly an interesting choice to use names of queer trans ancestors (who can be found in the film Paris is Burning). One review ...

from jess_reads

My heart was filled and broken between the covers of this book. Every other metaphor falls short. This amount of depth and electricity comes from a debut author? Joseph Cassara, I will read everything you publish.I have rarely encountered the pull of a place in a novel. Setting has always been ta...