The Constant Critic on Things To Do With Your Mouth

Things-To-Do-With-Your-Mouth_Divya-Victor_front-cover_thumbThe Constant Critic‘s Sueyeun Juliette Lee reviewed Divya Victor’s Things To Do With Your MouthDiscussing the nuances and social weight of Divya’s text, Lee notes:

By fragmenting and overloading these texts with descriptive excesses, she unleashes the female, sometimes child, “hysterical” being from the knowledge systems that otherwise seek to diagnose, medicalize, and constrain her. If Victor’s writing sounds harrowing—it is. But it is also terrifically magnetic, glowing with intelligence, elegance, and control.

You can read more of the review on The Constant Critic.

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