RaveNecessary Fiction... leans all the way into Florida’s fractured sense of self, deploying its backdrop to expertly blend pleasure and pain. Dealing philosophically and rather practically with an artist’s immortality, as well as the symbiotic relationship between the mind and body, the book is an observant, heartfelt, and darkly comic story of queer love and loss ... Katz writes shrewdly about Florida throughout ... packs an outsized punch in its brief pages. Its structure as a novella keeps the reader beside Jules as they process their grief from losing B, simulating a sense of near-real time. The result is a perfect container for a complex, expansive story about love, death, and the competing realities of life in Florida and beyond.
