The necessary hunger by nina revoyr5/12/2023 ![]() ![]() Jackie, a Japanese-American lesbian, investigates four unsolved murders that took place at her grandfather’s store during the Watts riots. Southland (2003), like The Necessary Hunger and The Age of Dreaming, is set in Los Angeles. Despite this drama, the author avoids a soap-opera feel Revoyr ably switches between fast-paced basketball action and gritty urban scenes, and Raina and Nancy are believable, appealing characters. Japanese-American Nancy has a crush on African-American Raina, who’s dating another girl to complicate matters, Raina’s mother falls in love with Nancy’s father, and the two families meld to share a household. Revoyr’s other novels are more appropriate for review here: The Necessary Hunger (1997 reviewed in the Spring 1998 GLBTRT Newsletter) follows Nancy and Raina, teen lesbian basketball players going through the college recruitment process together. ![]() ![]() Advise your Revoyr-loving patrons that this is a good one, but not a gay one. ![]() The book is beautifully written, unfolding quietly at first and slowly building tension, and is recommended for all fiction collections however, the only gay action involves one minor character and is all off-screen. Readers looking for LGBT content won’t find it in Revoyr’s latest, which tells the life story of a fictional Japanese-American silent film star, and focuses on the circumstances regarding his early retirement. ![]()
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