The Women of Dauphine accurately captures the fraught pendulum between queer joy and queer sorrow over the course of an abusive adolescence where the paranormal is what you want to be normal and the adults in the room are the true failures. Nice positive end appearance of Tulane Gender Studies. This book straddles the line between first romance and gritty teen drama that fans of Han Nolan, Alys Arden, and Riverdale are sure to be interested in.It’s important to note that by reading the authors other works, it can be sussed our that in many ways this is an ownvoices story. Ghosts probably aren’t real and there is no record of the specific conversion camp existing in Louisiana. But, Jannerson has written at length about parental and systematic medical abuse in her poetry and non-fiction. Parental and institutional abuse are far more common than many are ready to admit and it’s important to bear witness to these matters, especially because most of them do not occur in the horrible onslaught of “A Child Called It” but instead happen right alongside the adolescent joys that allow somebody to disassociate from that violence.
