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A review by sarahfonseca
This Way Back by Joanna Eleftheriou
5.0
Had the pleasure of reading the first few chapters of This Way Back
Eleftheriou is a gentle place writer, innately eschewing cliche while acknowledging correlations and tensions between civilizations, biological and chosen families, her homelands (NYC, Cyprus), the untidy binary between, among other things, the occupationists and the occupied. Most refreshing are the author's strength in vulnerability, detailing a lesbian life that is more learned that kinetically carnal (yearnings notwithstanding); one where learning to live in the present is, in lands ruled by Olympian deities and those ruled by the blinking cursor of the scribe.
Eleftheriou is a gentle place writer, innately eschewing cliche while acknowledging correlations and tensions between civilizations, biological and chosen families, her homelands (NYC, Cyprus), the untidy binary between, among other things, the occupationists and the occupied. Most refreshing are the author's strength in vulnerability, detailing a lesbian life that is more learned that kinetically carnal (yearnings notwithstanding); one where learning to live in the present is, in lands ruled by Olympian deities and those ruled by the blinking cursor of the scribe.