Thank you NetGalley and Verso Books for the advanced copy of this book.

"Each interaction is a balance of debts and assets. When someone becomes indebted to you they cannot leave you."

I do think this quote resumes fairly well this book, which for me, it is a diary of the protagonist that she writes about herself and her actions in every page she turns. It hurts to read it sometimes to see the self deprication that the protagonist has come to—without realising that she doesn't really need anyone to accept themselves.

It is raw, dark at some points (specially when you're dealing with the last few pages of the book), but it is real. It is the story of a queer lesbian, trying to survive the constant need of transactions. The external acceptation.

I do not think this book is for everyone but you ever struggled with self acceptance as a queer person, this book may be for you.

After reading Debt in one night I could not shake the feeling of having taken on the protagonist’s emotional experience which I feel even now as if I were her in a reoccuring dream. Details stick with me like when I read Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red for the first time. I needed to go back and check my experience with the actual arrangement of words. My memory taking hold in the space left by the author for me to fill. With Debt I am left with an affective experience of being subsumed and also wanting more. What is my role as a reader of Debt but to return again and again? All I know is I have a desire to remain hungry.

This is a really strong stream-of-consciousness erotic novel about a young lesbian who essentially is trying to sugar baby herself among the elite lesbians of NYC, and her feeling of accumulating debts until she is nothing but a hole, really, and the escalating measures she takes to try and satisfy the debts. Bleak as hell for obvious reasons, but simultaneously really well detailed and hot in the erotic sense. Well worth your time this winter.

This book was a poetic and captivating, lush and claustrophobic.

The thoughts of the main character are fascinating and compelling even while it’s clear she’s a bit self-focused, relationship-centered and struggling with her own worth.

I felt that when she talked about accumulating it was really more like emptying and that was a sad theme throughout.

The lovers in this book are the driving narrative but I think she’s mainly reckoning with debts to herself.

I really loved the intentional writing style, every sentence and phrase clearly crafted carefully. I recommend reading each page at least twice.

It got pretty grim but love and desire and the life and experiences that are inform them are frequently very dark.

I enjoyed being in these thoughts.
Thanks to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for the ARC.