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Sweet Tooth

A Memoir

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Sweet Tooth

Yazan: Tim Anderson
Seslendiren: MacLeod Andrews
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What’s a sweets-loving young boy growing up gay in North Carolina in the '80s supposed to think when he’s diagnosed with type-1 diabetes? That God is punishing him, naturally.

This was, after all, when gay-hating Jesse Helms was his senator, AIDS was still the boogeyman, and no one was saying, "It gets better." And if stealing a copy of a gay porno magazine from the newsagent was a sin, then surely what the men inside were doing to one another was much worse.

Sweet Tooth is Tim Anderson’s uproarious memoir of life after his hormones and blood sugar both went berserk at the age of 15. With Morrissey and The Smiths as the soundtrack, Anderson self-deprecatingly recalls love affairs with vests and donuts, first crushes, coming out, and inaugural trips to gay bars. What emerges is the story of a young man trying to build a future that won’t involve crippling loneliness or losing a foot to his disease - and maybe even one that, no matter how unpredictable, can still be pretty sweet.

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Although I found the narrative switching between first and third person jarring at first, I soon fell into the author's rhythm. You get a good feel for the struggles of sugar dependence even once you know that overdosing could kill you, mix that with a burgeoning identity that is different from that the constructs of society, and you have a heavy mixture indeed, which is handled well for the most part. Perhaps the old voyeur in me, having been teased by lustful young musings in the first half of the book, felt a little let down in the later chapters as Tim glazed over the gay interactions. I'm not suggesting there should have been graphicness, but a bit more of the earlier descriptive flare in these sections would have lifted them for the reader I feel.

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