Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Author(s): Andrea Lawlor
Fiction | Fantasy | Identity - Transgender | Gender Identity | Identity - LGBTQIA+ / Queer
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 lesbian best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Women's Studies major to trade, Paul transforms his body at will in a series of adventures that take him from Iowa City to Boystown to Provincetown and finally to San Francisco - a journey through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure. Andrea Lawlor's debut novel offers a speculative history of early 90s identity politics during the heyday of ACT UP and Queer Nation.
Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl is a riotous, razor-sharp bildungsroman whose hero/ine wends his way through a world gutted by loss, pulsing with music, and opening into an array of intimacy and connections.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Campbell Books Ltd
- : 0.3
- : 01 October 2019
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- : books
Special Fields
- : Andrea Lawlor
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : 320