"When you grow up surrounded by people who hate you for what you are and whom you love, it's tough to disentangle their hate from self-hate, and either one from a wish to die."

—Stephanie Burt

Brilliant!

(From her book review "Invisible Men: Gay Jamaican men struggle for survival in Marlon James's new novel." (Title and subtitle taken from the printed edition.) https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/09/marlon-james-the-disappearers/687960/ )