The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time Summary

The review that I chose to review was one about Steven Sherrill’s book The Minotaur Takes His Own Sweet Time, by the New York Times journalist Allan Gurganus. In his review, titled A Minotaur’s in Maintenance in a Tale of Rust Belt America, Gurganus ponders whether the Minotaur is a worthwhile subject to place into contemporary American life; and while the Minotaur may be a multi-millennia year old beast, Gurganus believes that a once feared creature reduced to average Joe’s level is a good comparison to the standard populace of the United States.
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A Tomboy’s Niche Liz Prince’s graphic novel Tomboy captured something very specific, personal, and something that most Americans of recent years have experienced in their early years: fitting in. Now, most people can’t say that they’ve experienced Prince’s specific plights; I highly doubt that most people grew up denying their societal status of gender. Yet, despite this obvious difference, most can say that they struggled in some way to find a place to fit in to; to this day, even I’m not entirely sure where I fit in with society. Prince shows many examples of her pathway to community, but I chose to focus on the
Really, though, her memoir isn’t just for the benefit of getting a weight off of her psyche; while it may exist for partially that purpose, Prince had something to say. In the end, Prince’s novel was a critique of the American gender standard. Her message was that despite gender binaries existing, there is no reason to feel out of place being outside of those standards. Not only that, but those inside of those binaries should not feel bad for buying into societies preconceived roles of gender; no matter what, you should feel comfortable and happy with yourself. And if people don’t like what makes you happy, do what Liz Prince did many times throughout her memoir: raise a middle