12-year-old Kiran Shah, the American-born son of Indian immigrants, longingly observes his prototypically American neighbors, the Bells. He's powerfully drawn - in a way he does not yet understand - to Kelly Bell's charismatic father, Chris. Kiran is close to his older sister, Preeti - until an unfathomable betrayal drive a wedge between them that will reverberate through their lives. ... Weiterlesen

Raziel Reid: When Everything Feels Like the Movies

CAN/UK 2016, 163 pp., brochure, € 12.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Arsenal Pulp Press

School is just like a film set: there's The Crew, who make things happen, The Extras who fill the empty desks, and The Movie Stars, whom everyone wants tagged in their Facebook photos. But Jude doesn't fit in. He's not part of The Crew because he isn't about to do anything unless it's court-appointed. He's not an Extra because nothing ... Weiterlesen

JD Glass: Punk Like Me

D 2016, 253 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag

Nina, at 21, is standing at the edge of �being� and �becoming.� She remembers when her parents, and the nuns, and everyone else seemed to have plans for her, of who she was and who she'd be. Her dad calls �punk� anything and anyone that disobeys the norms. And then there's Nina's feelings. Feelings for her friend Kerry, feelings from ... Weiterlesen

Sarah Schulman: The Cosmopolitans

USA 2016, 296 pp., hardbound, € 18.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Feminist Press

A modern retelling of Balzac's classic �Cousin Bette� by one of America's most prolific lesbian writers. Earl, a black, gay actor working in a meatpacking plant, and Bette, a white secretary, have lived next door to each other in the same Greenwich Village apartment building for thirty years. Shamed and disowned by their families, both found refuge in New York ... Weiterlesen

Lois Cloarec Hart: Stone Gardens

D 2015, 334 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Ylva Verlag

For years, Grae Jordan has been trapped in a purgatory of her own making. She has spiralled from the privileged life into which she was born to the lowest stratum of society. Grae guards her heart with a protective wall as hard as granite, adorns her body with tattoos and metal, and eschews dating the women she once enjoyed. A ... Weiterlesen

Gunny Catell: Rise Like a Faerie

A Radical Fairie Trail. � 2015, Engl./dt. Text, 212 pp., brochure, € 19.90
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

The Radical Faeries is a pioneering movement that started in the Gay Liberation era. Gunny Catell is travelling the world for eight years now to participate at the Radical Faeries gatherings as �Mata Hari�. He wrote this Faerie book to tell about his personal experiences with the Radical Faeries - about his visions and confessions, too. The book offers insights ... Weiterlesen

James Purdy: Eustace Chisholm and the Works

USA 2015, 277 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
W. W. Norton

No Purdy work has dazzled contemporary writers more than this haunting tale of unrequited love in an indifferent world. A seedy Depression-era boardinghouse in Chicago plays host to a game of emotional chairs in a novel initially condemned for its frank depiction of abortion, homosexuality, and life on the margins of American society. A cast of characters displaced by economic ... Weiterlesen

Michael V. Smith: My Body is Yours

A Memoir. CAN 2015, 240 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Arsenal Pulp Press

The author is a multihyphenate force of nature, a novelist, poet, improv comic, filmmaker, drag queen, performance artist, and occasional clown. In this, his first work of nonfiction, Michael traces his early years as an inadequate male - a fey kid growing up in a small town amid a blue-collar family, a sissy, an insecure teenager desperate to disappear, and ... Weiterlesen

Neil Bartlett: The Disappearance Boy

UK 2014, 288 pp., hardback, € 27.95
Kostenloser Versand innerhalb Europas.
Bloomsbury

23-year-old gay Reggie Rainbow is a stagehand living at the heart of the performance. He's found the perfect profession for someone who likes to keep himself to himself. It's his job to make sure that some things stay out of sight and out of mind. He's an angry gay young man who treads the backstage corridors of down-at-heel theatres for ... Weiterlesen

Christos Tsiolkas: Barracuda

UK 2013, 515 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Atlantic

Daniel Kelly has one chance to escape his working-class upbringing. His atonishing ability in the swimming pool should transform his life and silence the rich boys at the private school to which he has won a sports scholarship. Everything Danny has ever done, every sacrifice his family has ever made, has been in pursuit of his dream. But when he ... Weiterlesen

J. H. Trumble: Where You Are

USA 2013, 324 pp., brochure, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Kensington

Robert Westfall's life is falling apart-everywhere but in math class. That's the one place where problems always have a solution. But in the world beyond high school, his father is terminally ill, his mother is squabbling with his interfering aunts, his boyfriend is unsupportive, and the career path that's been planned for him feels less appealing by the day. Robert's ... Weiterlesen

Joey Comeau: The Complete Lockpick Pornography

USA 2012, 172 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Combining two stories into one volume, this collection explores the effects of prejudice and the ramifications of violence with a slightly unhinged sense of humor and unexpected tenderness. �Lockpick Pornography�, originally published in 2005, is a gender-queer adventure story that was not widely available until now. �We All Got It Coming� presents the experiences of a young couple dealing with ... Weiterlesen

Andrew Solomon: Far from the Tree

Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity. USA 2012, 976 S., brochure, € 18.50
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Simon and Schuster

In �Far from the Tree�, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so. Solomon's startling proposition is that diversity is what unites us all. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple severe disabilities, with children who are ... Weiterlesen

Augusten Burroughs: This is How

USA 2012, 230 pp., hardbound, € 24.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
SMP

If you are fat and fail every diet, if you are thin but can't get thin enough, if you lose your job, if your child dies, if you are diagnosed with cancer, if you always end up with exactly the wrong kind of person, if you always end up alone, if you can't get over the past, if your parents ... Weiterlesen

Mikey Walsh: Gypsy Boy on the Run

UK 2011, 306 pp, pb, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Hodder and Stoughton

The sequel to Mikey Walsh's coming-of-age novel �Gypsy Boy�: Mikey is a Romany Gypsy and grew up living in a caravan on sites across the UK. He adored his family and the rich and vibrant Romany culture he'd inherited. Eventually though he was forced to make a heartbreaking decision - to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere ... Weiterlesen

Mikey Walsh: Gypsy Boy

UK 2010, 292 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Hodder and Stoughton

Mikey Walsh was born into a Romany Gypsy family, and this is his memoir of growing up gypsy and gay. Gypsies live in secluded communities and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution, Gypsies are wary of outsiders, and if you choose to leave you can never come back. This is something Mikey knows too ... Weiterlesen

Will Davis: My Side of the Story

UK 2009, 247 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

So what if your parents hate each other and want you to have therapy? So what if your holier-than-thou sister (also known as �The Nun�) and her posse have decided you're going to hell? So what if the school tyrant and his goons are hunting you down, or if your best friend has just outed you to a neo-Nazi? 16-year-old ... Weiterlesen

Peter Cameron: Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

USA 2009, 229 pp., brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.

Though he's been accepted by Brown University, James Sveck isn't sure he wants to go to college. He's a sophisticated, vulnerable young man with a deep appreciation for the world and no idea how to live in it. He's the 18-year-old son of divorced parents living in Manhattan, articulate, sensitive, and cynical. He rejects all of the assumptions that govern ... Weiterlesen

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