Ilinca Mureseanu 24.05.2024

Een apart maar tijfeldn boek, Benieuwd naar meer ( )

Een jonge vrouw uit Amsterdam beschrijft haar proces van toegroeien naar een andere seksualiteit ( )

A lively 21st-century take on the good old-fashioned coming-out novel, Lakmaker showing us that even in today's Amsterdam, growing up and working out for yourself whether you want to be a she or a he, whether you are looking for a boyfriend, a girlfriend, neither or both, is still not a straightforward painless process. And that there are still plenty of stupid, selfish or bigoted people around to get in your way and try to mess your life up, including yourself.

Clever, witty observation, and since this is written as autofiction I assume some of the other characters are wicked comic portraits of people we would know if we were that age and lived in Amsterdam. Some lovely throwaway Holden Caulfieldish comments as well, like the advice on dealing with publishers: first persuade them that you have a "fresh personality", and then let them coax you to write a novel... ( )

Schöner Plauderton. Berührend, witzig, flüssig. Neue Welt ( )