Name: Kim's review of Don’t Tell My Mother by Brigitte Bautista
Item: Don’t Tell My Mother
Rating: 5
Author: Kim

Brigitte Bautista

With an overly zealous mother as her guide, 19-year-old Sam has never had problems navigating through Christian suburbia before. But, all that changes when she befriends and becomes intrigued with Clara, her widowed neighbor and the village’s social outcast. When their friendship grows into the “unnatural”, Sam is forced to examine her upbringing and come to terms with who she really is.

Don’t Tell My Mother

Sorry Lord bading ako huhu.

I wish the book was a bit longer bcs I honestly enjoyed it sm, if it were a little longer maybe the sapphic romance could've been more solid.

My favorite excerpt from the book is ofc:
“It was hard.” The penis or the pregnancy? That would have been a far more interesting dinner conversation.

actual rating: 3.5
the pinoy, sapphic representation saved this book for me, would have rated it lower if it weren't for that :(

akira

my god..... it now just struck me how much representation really does matter. i think this is the first lesbian filipino book ive ever read and this already means a lot to me. sam's life was laid out and i felt like i was just going through my own photo album growing up. just a hundred pages compact with such hyperspecific relation to a life of a filipino lesbian raised in an aggressively conservative religious home. i wish i had read this earlier in my life... it would have been nice to have 15 yr old me tumble upon this and save themself of the years of self loathing.

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