Absolutely beautiful! Breathtaking and heartbreaking in equal measures. It took me longer to read this than the page count made it seem like it would but that's because I wanted to take my time and reread pages so, so often.

Justin Torres is back!!!!!!! I cannot explain how excited I was to jump into this, and it did not disappoint. It's very much working at a different register from WE THE ANIMALS; at a sentence and syntax level, these are very different pieces of work. Thematically, however, I can see the Torres DNA. But this novel is far stranger, far more opaque. I loved it, and will recommend it for years to come. Thanks to the publisher for the e-galley.

Fascinating text. Told with a great sense of motion and pacing. Sometimes a little challenging to read, but altogether an exciting find. I am looking forward to reading Torres' first book next.

It takes a great skill to weave queerness, race, class, gender together with history, medicine, politics, economy, and a great talent to weave these in such a way to tell a story as poignant as this one. However, it takes an artist to produce an artwork, and especially an artwork from the ways various oppressive discourses erase those who appear at the intersection of these aspects of being in the world as the most powerless. Beautiful novel.

It's been over a decade since "We the Animals" burst onto the literary scene and changed America's view of the power punch a slim novel could deliver. Then we waited and waited for the second novel to appear. It didn't. Still, we waited. Lucky for us, the wait is over. Blackouts delivers the same one two punch as Torre's first novel. Let's just hope we don't have to wait another decade for the next one. His writing is just too delicious to be without for such long stretches of time.