The Goth House Experiment

Informationen zum Autor SJ Sindu is a Tamil diaspora writer whose works include the novels Marriage of a Thousand Lies (winner of the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and an ALA Stonewall Honor Book) and Blue-Skinned Gods (finalist for a Lambda Literary Award), as well as the graphic novel Shakti and the chapbooks I Once Met You But You Were Dead and Dominant Genes . Sindu holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from Florida State University and is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Virginia Commonwealth University. Klappentext "In "Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc," a millennial English professor finds viral fame on TikTok, but her newfound notoriety could wreck her already unstable life. In "Patriots' Day," a man having an affair finds himself caught up in larger currents of anti-Asian violence. Throughout the collection, an array of loners and artists--a young poet haunted by the ghost of Oscar Wilde, a home brewer and wife during lockdown, a boy with wings--struggle for connection and fulfillment in a world battered by the pandemic and reactionary politics. A daring writer with limitless range, SJ Sindu can depict shocking cruelty as readily as small moments of queer joy. The Goth House Experiment is a startling and very funny collection by one of America's most exciting young voices."-- Leseprobe Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc The day I found out about Dorothy was also the day my husband Dillon went on his first date as a man. Five years together, and one morning he’d woken up and decided it was time he tasted the single life from the male side. I’d arranged my face in an approximation of shock and indignation, before reversing and trying to look supportive.     “You can date, too,” he said. He self-consciously pulled his T-shirt away from his chest, a habit he’d continued even after top surgery a year ago. “I know you miss dating women.”      “Do I?” I imagined going out to the bars again, squeezing myself into the disco-ball miniskirts I’d worn in my twenties, dancing like I had when I was single, trying to gather up the energy to get to know someone new. That insufferable tango of disclosure and anxiety, the wondering and staring at the phone, the text messages drafted and deleted.      “You don’t hate me for this, right?” Dillon rolled up the hem of his shirt and then rolled it back down. “You’re really okay with me seeing other people?”      I splashed a smile over my face and took his hand from his shirt. “New adventures.”   Later, Dillon suggested I download Sapphyc, a dating app for women and femmes interested in each other.      “I don’t do social media,” I said. I lounged on our bed, scrolling through his Tinder profile while he tried on an endless series of outfits. I knew it was cliché to “not do social media.” But I considered myself a gold star. I hadn’t ever had a profile, not even on Myspace in high school or Facebook in college.      I swiped right and left on the potential paramours that popped up. Super glam brown woman who looked a little like me, her hair waving in the wind on a mountaintop. Reject. Cute stud with locks in a flannel shirt. Approve. Straight-looking guy holding a fish.      “Do you want to date a penis?” I asked. I shimmied my posture to relieve the cramps that had started a few days earlier.      “It’s not social media. It’s a dating app. It’s different.” Dillon modeled his first outfit: a tight long-sleeve shirt and ripped pants, converse high-tops with rainbow laces. “Does this say casual yet sexy? You know what, never mind.” He pulled off the shirt and rummaged around in his closet. “How do you know he’s a penis?”      I showed him the profile picture. Wraparound sunglasses. Patriots windbreaker. “He’s holding a dead fish.”      “Yikes.”      “Is that a yikes no? Or a secr...

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: SJ Sindu
• Edition: Soho Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 17.10.2023
• EAN: 9781641295192
• ISBN: 978-1-64129-519-2
• Pages: 208
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 185 mm x 19 mm
• Catégorie: Littérature > Littérature (récits)