Taboo for whom? Will style overcome substance? How much can the reader’s stamina and sensibilities tolerate? Eliza Clark is ready to ask just those questions and critique anything ‘a bit OTT. It's easy to be wary of any debut acclaimed as exploring ‘taboo' subjects. Keeping her company in crisis are Irina’s medley of manipulated friends, a ‘rotation of background extras’, and the ‘nice’ and ‘weak’ men who pose for her: the ones who ‘will gaze down the barrel of my camera and do anything for me’. Welcome to Boy Parts, where sex, drugs, violence, and-be warned-their combined consequences, permeate the daily existence of our antiheroine, all while she prepares for an unexpected chance to exhibit her photography in London. Hold on-for the minutiae of her drug-fueled hangover, some sexual harassment from a patron, and an assault by a woman who’s understandably angry about Irina taking explicit photos of her son. ‘I'm sick in my mouth on the bus into work,’ begins Irina, a twenty-something Newcastle photographer and bar worker.
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