Unfortunates, Bonespin Slipspace, & The Grimhaven Disaster
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Alice French is an emotional wreck. She's left her toxic lover. She's probably going to lose her job. She's even about to ruin her expensive heels when she stumbles upon a barely conscious stranger one night...All Alice wants to do is go home and lick her wounds, but she's compelled to help. Who is this strange man? Why is he mumbling about a pig? And why can't she stop flirting with Ash, the gorgeous A&E doctor? Alice needs to sort her life out, but when it comes to Ash and her disarming smile, things could be about to get a whole lot messier. As Alice delves into the mystery, she starts to see her life with newfound clarity, and unexpected possibilities bloom.Threaded with humour, heart, and intrigue, this sapphic story explores a life transformation with a side of romance!
Waiting for Something Else
The path to love doesn't always travel in a straight direction. Waiting for Something Else tells the story of James, a heterosexual man who unexpectedly falls in love-but not quite in lust-with his gay co-worker, Roger. "Martin Cloutier's prose is suffused with intelligence, wit, compassion, and a vision of the world uniquely his own but which also speaks to a potentially wide readership. This writer is on the cusp of an impressive literary career." -Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog "Martin Cloutier understands that comedy -- the searing, real kind -- begins in an honesty as painful for the reader as for the author. We laugh when we read his work because we hear, fatally, the accents of our own abjection as it encounters the humiliations of daily life." -Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story Bald, bewildered, and Buddhist, James is struggling to adjust to life in New York City. Nine months into managing a Brooklyn gourmet restaurant, he's still friendless and dateless, and secretly pining for Sherry-a Wiccan vixen with a narcissistic streak-but too timid to act. One drunken night, while confessing his unrequited love to Roger, a playwright known for sex comedies, James unwittingly stumbles into one of his own when Roger makes a move on him.Roger, weary of sculptured thighs, pecs, and the superficial chicken parts of gay dating, is drawn to James's awkward sincerity-and his knack for puppet animation. James enjoys the ego-stroking attention of Roger's sexual advances, and envies his ability to make art in off-Broadway Brooklyn, but remains unsold on his hairy chest, prominent jaw, and unavoidable penis. Things become even more complicated when Sherry, escaping her bipolar boyfriend, moves in with Roger-only to catch feelings after a drunken night sharing his bed. In this era of shifting identities, sexual fluidity, and the messy modern search for connection, Waiting for Something Else tackles the complexities of attraction-the fine lines between gay, straight and questioning-exploring whether desire can transcend sexual orientation and our personal expectations.
Give My Love to Berlin
"Set against the glittering decadence and impending doom of Weimar Germany, Give My Love to Berlin chronicles a forgotten chapter of LGBTQ history with remarkable depth and humanity. Katherine Bryant has crafted a heart-wrenching and unforgettable tale of forbidden love and moral defiance, offering readers a glimpse of beauty and brutality and reminding us of love's endurance through history's darkest chapters. - Paul Levine, bestselling author of the Jack Lassiter series and the Solomon vs. Lord series "A moving story about ordinary people caught up in historic events, with devastating results. It is poignant and disturbing, with chilling parallels to our own time. Katherine Bryant's debut will stir your anger and touch your heart." - Al Pessin, multi-award-winning author of the international spy thrillers, Sandblast, Blowback, and Shockwave. Give My Love to Berlin follows the lives of two gay couples in the late 1920's Weimar Republic as it slowly gives way to the Nazi's Third Reich and one young woman in America in the 1990s where she grapples with the onset of her grandmother's dementia and discovers secrets her grandmother kept hidden for decades. In 1920s Germany, Tillie and Ruth and their best friends, James and Ernesto, navigate falling in love, thriving in their community, and coming to terms with the danger they're in just by being who they are, even as Tillie watches her father, a prominent lawyer, become more and more entrenched in the Nazi Party. Ruth, a performer at one of the nightclubs in the city and Tillie, working in her father's law office where she meets Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Goring, become convinced that her and her friends' lives are in danger as the Nazis take over Berlin one neighborhood at a time. Decades later in America, the shocking truth about Tillie, Ruth, James, and Ernesto and life under the deadly specter of hate and bigotry is finally revealed as a timely story about love, sacrifice, and the choices one must make in the face of danger.
A Language of Limbs
"The prose is textured, viscous almost, an ooze of sweet honey shot through with golden light . . . A Language of Limbs is a novel of (impeccable) vibes and mood, a gay hymnal written from inside the guts of the two protagonists."--Yves Rees, Australian Book Review A beautifully inventive, tender novel--the author's first to be published in the U.S.--following two lives as they almost intersect over three heartbreaking yet euphoric decades A Language of Limbs is a breathtaking spin on a will-they-won't-they love story; it is a tender epic that explores the weight of a choice, the love of community, and how joy is found in even the darkest corners. Newcastle, Australia, 1972. On a sticky summer night, a choice must be made: to give in to queer desire or suppress it? To venture into the unknown or stay the course? In alternating chapters, poetically called Limb One and Limb Two, we trace the two versions of a life that follow. In Limb One, a teenage girl is caught kissing her neighbor and is kicked from her home; in continuing to run, she chooses a new life for herself. She lands at a queer communal home in Sydney called Uranian House, where she meets the people who will forever become her family. Meanwhile, in Limb Two, a teenage girl pushes down her lustful dreams of her best friend and eventually makes her way to a university in Sydney to study English literature. During pivotal moments, the physical space between Limb One and Limb Two closes and they almost intersect--like when they each meet the first great loves of their lives in 1977 at a protest, or when, almost a decade later, they are both rushed to the hospital with only a curtain between them. Through the AIDS crisis--and from classrooms to art galleries, beds to bars, and hospitals to homes--we witness these two lives shadow each other until, finally, they collide.
