Melissa Broder: Milk Fed

USA 2021, 292 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Scribner
Rachel is 24, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting - until her therapist ... Weiterlesen

Bryan Washington: Memorial

UK 2021, 303 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Atlantic
Benson and Mike are two young guys who live together in Houston. Mike is a Japanese-American chef at a Mexican restaurant and Benson's a Black day care teacher, and they've been together for a few years - good years - but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for ... Weiterlesen

Bryan Washington: Lot

Stories. UK 2021, 222 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Atlantic
In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. This boy and his family experience the tumult of living in the margins, ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Ness: More Than This

UK 2013, 480 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Walker
A boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies. Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive. How can this be? And what is this strange deserted place? - As he struggles to understand what is happening, the boy dares to hope. Might this not be the end? Might there be more to this life, ... Weiterlesen

Rory Power: Burn Our Bodies Down

USA 2020, 345 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Macmillan
Ever since Margot was born, it's been just her and her mother. No answers to Margot's questions about what came before. No history to hold on to. No relative to speak of. Just the two of them, stuck in their run-down apartment, struggling to get along. But that's not enough for Margot. She wants family. She wants a past. And ... Weiterlesen

Russell T. Davies (R): Years and Years - Die komplette Serie

UK 2019, engl. OF, dt. SF, dt. UT, 3 DVDs, 346 min., € 24.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Studiocanal
Als eine schicksalhafte Nacht im Jahr 2019 den Lauf der Geschichte verändert, werden die Lyons im Schnelldurchlauf in die Zukunft katapultiert. In eine immer bedrohlichere und schneller werdende Welt voll politischer Beben und neuer Technologien, in der die Populistin Vivienne Rook mit radikalen Maßnahmen ihren Aufstieg zur Macht plant. In diesen Entwicklungen spielt die eigentlich unscheinbare Familie Lyons eine überraschende ... Weiterlesen

Jenna Laurenzo (R): L Bomb

USA 2018, engl. OF, dt. UT, 90 Min., € 14.99
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Pro-fun
Lauren und Hailey sind verliebt wie am ersten Tag und führen ein romantisches Leben in Brooklyn. Die traute Zweisamkeit ist nahezu perfekt, daran kann selbst der gemeinsame Mitbewohner Austin nicht rütteln. Nur eine Sache steht noch aus, als Sahnehäubchen auf dem gemeinsamen Glück: Das Coming-Out vor Laurens Familie! Und dafür wird es sogar höchste Zeit, denn Laurens Mutter will endlich ... Weiterlesen

Chantal Akerman: My Mother Laughs

UK 2019, 230 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Silver
In 2013, the filmmaker Chantal Akerman's mother was dying. She flew back from New York to care for her, and between dressing her, feeding her and putting her to bed, she wrote. She wrote about her childhood, the escape her mother made from Auschwitz but didn't talk about, the difficulty of loving her girlfriend, C., her fear of what she ... Weiterlesen

Ocean Vuong: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

USA 2020, 256 pp., pb., € 12.95
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Vintage
Brilliant, heart-breaking, tender, and highly original - poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of storytelling. At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her gay son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. ... Weiterlesen

Bridget Collins: The Binding

UK 2019, 438 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Harper Collins
Imagine you could bind and a secret away. - Emmett is summoned to begin an apprenticeship working for a Bookbinder, learning to craft beautiful volumes, within each capturing a memory. If there is something you want to forget, he can help. Your past will be stored in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible. Then Emmett ... Weiterlesen

John Boyne: My Brother's Name is Jessica

UK 2019, 248 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Penguin UK
Sam Waver's life has always been pretty quiet. A bit of a loner, he struggles to make friends, and his busy parents often make him feel invisible. Luckily for Sam, his older brother, Jason, has always been there for him. Sam idolises Jason, who seems to have life sorted - he's kind, popular, amazing at football, and girls are falling ... Weiterlesen

Édouard Louis: Who Killed My Father

Transl. by Lorin Stein. USA 2019, 87 pp., hardbound, € 16.95
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New Directions
This nonfiction book by the French young literary star Édouard Louis is both a searing j'accuse of the viciously entrenched French class system and a wrenchingly tender love letter to his father. »Who Killed My Father« rips into France's long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French - at the minimum ... Weiterlesen

Dustin Lance Black: Mama's Boy

A Story From Our Americas. UK 2019, 416 pp., hardback, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Hodder and Stoughton
From the screenwriter (»Milk«), political activist and husband of Olympic diver Tom Daley, a memoir about growing up as a gay Mormon in Texas that is, as well, a tribute to the mother who taught him about surviving against all odds. Black helped overturn California's anti-gay marriage »Proposition 8«, but as an LGBTQ activist he has unlikely origins. Raised in ... Weiterlesen

Saleem Haddad: Guapa

UK 2019, 300 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Random House
Set over the course of 24 hours, »Guapa« follows Rasa, a gay man living in an unnamed Arab country, as he tries to carve out a life for himself in the midst of political and social upheaval. Rasa spends his days translating for Western journalists and pining for the nights when he can sneak his lover, Taymour, into his room. ... Weiterlesen
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Eric Bell: Alan Cole Is Not a Coward

USA 2017, 262 pp., hardbound, € 19.95
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Alan Cole can't stand up to his cruel brother, Nathan. He can't escape the wrath of his demanding father, who thinks he's about as exceptional as a goldfish. And - scariest of all - he can't let the cute boy across the cafeteria know he has a crush on him. But when Nathan discovers Alan's secret, his older brother announces ... Weiterlesen

Pajtim Statovci: My Cat Yugoslavia

UK 2018, 257 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Pushkin
In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. Years later, her son, Bekim, grows up a social outcast in present-day Finland, not just an immigrant ... Weiterlesen

Will Self: Phone

UK 2018, 624 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Penguin UK
For the characters at the heart of Will Self's new novel the 500-quid worry bead in their pocket may be both a blessing and a curse. For elderly Dr Zachary Busner it is a mysterious object - »NO CALLER ID« - but also it's his life line to his autistic grandson Ben, whose own connection with technology is, in turn, ... Weiterlesen

Garrard Conley: Boy Erased

UK 2018, 340 pp., Pb, € 13.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
William Collins
The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. As a 19-year-old college student, Garrard was outed to his parents, and was forced to make a life-changing decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to ... Weiterlesen
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