From the author of Confidence and The Comedown comes a wildly imaginative story collection about queerness neurodivergence sexuality and selfdiscovery
Frumkins latest book is a deliciously entertaining collection of five genredefying stories that range from downright hilarious to brilliantly unhinged Taken together they celebrate a wide variety of human experiences
In the title story a queer young adult with bipolar disorder drops out of college in a fog of depression aimlessly drifting between maintaining their job at a fast food restaurant and dodging their moms texts But when they fall in with a group of sex workers starring in BDSM films they find radical freedom love and community In other stories we meet a psychiatrist whose meticulouslymaintained life is upended by an Alex Trebeklike voice in his head an egirl celebrity who is being courted by a delusional fan a young boy on the spectrum at odds with a neurotypical world determined to cure him and an elderly woman whose consciousness is being transformed by her oncoming death
With incredible insight compassion and honesty Frumkin unravels each story with tantalizing precision Sexy and rawand compulsively readablethis collection offers a look at our innermost selves as we all try to make sense of the world and our place in it
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