Boy Parts

Boy Parts

Eliza Clark

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 5.0
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Irina obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she persuades to model for her, scouted from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a fashionable London gallery, promising to revive her career in the art world and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, and extreme cinema. The news triggers a self-destructive tailspin, centred around Irina’s relationship with her obsessive best friend, and a shy young man from her local supermarket who has attracted her attention… Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the twenty-first century.


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    Is doing coke off a toilet seat a real thing? the germaphobe in me is cringing so hard 🤢

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    Not really sure what I just read, and I love it. Thought I was reading just another weird girl book (which, I love those books) but ended up very surprised. The plot really picked up 2/3s in and then I was riveted. So much to unpack about consent, objectification, power, misogyny, desire, pretty privilege, trauma, guilt…😮‍💨 and actually done really well. All unresolved and my brain is still trying to catch up, but amazed at the complexity this book was able to encompass.

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