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A beautiful book that is as much an object as a narrative; I love the sepia ink of the hardcover edition. There are apparently ebook and audiobook versions of this, but I think it absolutely should be read on paper. I can’t image how the audiobook in particular would capture the nuances of this book. It should feel like something the reader discovered by accident.
I won’t attempt to synopsize it, but most of the book is dialogue between two gay men, exchanging stories of their life, and it’s interspersed with some redacted passages of Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns, as well as photographs and other visuals. There’s a pleasing tension between oral and sanctioned histories, whose stories are told, whose research is acknowledged, and how much of this is truly fiction, anyway?
I won’t attempt to synopsize it, but most of the book is dialogue between two gay men, exchanging stories of their life, and it’s interspersed with some redacted passages of Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns, as well as photographs and other visuals. There’s a pleasing tension between oral and sanctioned histories, whose stories are told, whose research is acknowledged, and how much of this is truly fiction, anyway?