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lizshayne 's review for:
Just Business
by Anna Zabo
dark
emotional
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Corporate banging continues, kink intensifies, there may not be ethical consumption under late capitalism, but at least the sex can be a model of consent. *slaps side of book* this baby can hold so much trauma in it.
Let’s talk about the Jewish and disability rep in this book. I think I caught one minor mistake in practice (no blessing on the mezuzah except when it’s first hung, fwiw), but otherwise…yeah, Zabo did an excellent job with the story of how observant Judaism pushes queer people away. I realize this was not the point of the story, but I wanted more about Eli’s Jewish journey. Did he go straight to the Reform community or did he struggle to accept any non-orthodoxesque practice as legitimate? How does he see himself?Did Justin convert? Was this an interfaith wedding and how did the Jewish community react either way? Look, I’m a rabbi, of course I want to know these things
And while I can speak less from the inside about this, Eli’s disability also felt very real and vivid. It was something that was always present, but rarely at the forefront. But it was clearly part of Eli’s identity. Also, Zabo gets the way that mobility aids are also art and part of the body. It felt like they handled that really well.
Anyway, an ABSOLUTE delight, even better than the last one.
Let’s talk about the Jewish and disability rep in this book. I think I caught one minor mistake in practice (no blessing on the mezuzah except when it’s first hung, fwiw), but otherwise…yeah, Zabo did an excellent job with the story of how observant Judaism pushes queer people away. I realize this was not the point of the story, but I wanted more about Eli’s Jewish journey. Did he go straight to the Reform community or did he struggle to accept any non-orthodoxesque practice as legitimate? How does he see himself?
And while I can speak less from the inside about this, Eli’s disability also felt very real and vivid. It was something that was always present, but rarely at the forefront. But it was clearly part of Eli’s identity. Also, Zabo gets the way that mobility aids are also art and part of the body. It felt like they handled that really well.
Anyway, an ABSOLUTE delight, even better than the last one.