Title: Read Dennis Cooper instead, go to the source
Product review: It's just not a very good book, sorry. There's nothing in this book that Dennis Cooper and others haven't done better. Even as a Copper pastiche it still falls way short of the mark.As for Laura Albert, this kind of writing/hoax seems to be a typical American phenomenon: girls, who can't get over the fact that they weren't born as boys. They invest a lot of energy to "re-invent" themselves as young males (who never really become adult men) and at the same time reduce their envy by putting boys down (just like in the case of "Anthony Godby Johnson"). Make them suffer all kinds of abuse, turn them into some weak and miserable beings so that you don't have to envy them anymore (it's therefore only logical that Jeremiah has to wear girl's clothes) - that's it, there's nothing more to say actually. People, who still believe that JT LeRoy is a 25 years old man, should maybe ask themselves why they want to believe it.
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