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At the beginning, we were witnessing events more or less in real time. They become issues that are never solved, probably incapable of being solved, instead of people.
This isn’t a YA book. The characters love to ruminate on queer topics and issues both explicitly and through thinly veiled metaphors. This pacing allowed for plenty of room to simply feel and digest the creeping sense of loss and internalized discomfort that Aziz was experiencing.
Surprisingly, I even liked that description of football in Out of Position. I’ve read worse, but I’ve also read a whole lot better.
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They were too perfect and their situation too orderly to be real.I really don’t know what I was supposed to get out of this book. Kory is a much more private individual.
And despite the flashforward, we don’t get talks with any of Aziz’s family or old friends about his identity -rendering the two parts of his life somewhat distinct and separate, which I find disappointing for a resolution. In trying to understand the pair, Aziz is looking to repair the cracks in his own world, but only manages to find more chaos and uncertainty.
One of the things I love the most about this story is the constant theme of change.
However, what disappoints me is how gradually this intimate and disquieting slowness unravels into something too fast and too clean.
Personally, I loved Aziz’s talks with his wife and Gerald and the leader of the support group. The victim of the brunt of the bullying at school surrounding Kory’s sexual orientation isn’t doled out on Kory, but his now ex-best friend.
We hear stories of people getting kicked out, experiencing physical violence, and coming to live in halfway homes, but Kory lives behind a fort of pillows by virtue of the fact that for most of the book he either has no friends or interacts with no one who isn’t gay or involved in the queer community.
Maybe kids today are too different from ten years ago. I adored watching Aziz unpack his past actions and beliefs in order to pick out the tangles he’s currently experiencing in his faith, culture, and identity. Outside of definitions and the familiar trappings of routine, Aziz’s life is largely the same. Gold’s been writing furry romance novels full-time for several years, after bouncing from chemical engineering to business school to zoology.
One of the things I love about anthropomorphic literature is how authors are given more tools to express how characters experience emotions. It’s ok. Other books have addressed these topics and personal development issues much better. Any problems I had with this book are ultimately negligible by virtue of how short the story actually is. Sure, the encroaching gentrification and erasure of the neighborhood serves as an antagonistic force, but ultimately the role this plays in the plot is one of vehicle; it is a point of tension and pressure to move, but not something that actively challenges the larger issue of Aziz’s identity or relationships.
The story repeats over and over again about how some things are worth leaving in the past while others merit bringing with us into the future, but the tone of the final chapter especially is that Aziz hasn’t actually lost much from his immediate past.
Mercifully none of that happened, but at the same time there were no immediate antagonists in Aziz’s life. … I also didn't understand much about Islam other than that it's a religion that hundreds of millions of people in the world follow."
And so he resolved to learn more.