LGBTQ June Book Club: "Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl" by Andrea Lawlor Wed June 11th 5:30 pm

Happy Pride! Richard's June pick for the LGBTQ+ Book Club is "Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl" by Andrea Lawlor, Wednesday, June 11th at 5:30 pm.

A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century

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.

“In these irreverent pages, a shapeshifter gets a crash course in gender and sexuality by inhabiting both sides of the binary and arriving precisely somewhere in the middle.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

" Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is playful, sexy, smart, and like nothing else I--or you--have ever read before."
--Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties

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