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Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl

“One of the most exciting – and one of the most fun – novels of the decade.” Garth Greenwell, author of `What Belongs to You`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 flร
: neur 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 their way through a world gutted by loss, pulsing with music, and opening into an array of intimacy and connections.”Playful, sexy, smart” Carmen Maria Machado”Evocative and urgent… and very funny” Observer”`90s punk Orlando`… a pretty wild ride” Dazed & Confused

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