"A horny, bitchy, charming, playful, surprising, sharply funny, sneakily poignant, genius book. A book for anyone who once spent countless school nights trying to manifest a hyper-specific, deeply conceptual Fashion Look out of a closet full of very ordinary Marshalls clothes; a book for anyone who remembers their acute and cliché and actually-that-painful First Gay Heartbreak; a book for anyone turned on by multiplicity, who longs to be more than one thing at a time and possibly all things, all the time; a book for anyone who wants to grapple with theory without, you know, actually having to read theory; a book, in short, for me, and maybe also for you."
Publisher Vintage
Publication Date 2019-04-23
Section Fiction / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Lauren A.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780525566182
“HOT” —Maggie Nelson
“TIGHT” —Eileen Myles
“DEEP” —Michelle Tea
It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flaneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Paul transforms his body and his gender at will as he crossed the country––a journey and adventure through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure.
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is a riotous, razor-sharp bildungsroman whose hero/ine wends his/her way through a world gutted by loss, pulsing with music, and opening into an array of intimacy and connections.
