At Certain Points We Touch Joseph Lauren John
An Observer Best Debut Novelist of the YearAn Esquire Best Book of 2022A Stylist Book You Can't Miss in 2022From an electrifying new voice, a stone-cold masterpiece (Olivia Laing) of queer friendship,…
Specifikacia At Certain Points We Touch Joseph Lauren John
An Observer Best Debut Novelist of the YearAn Esquire Best Book of 2022A Stylist Book You Can't Miss in 2022From an electrifying new voice, a stone-cold masterpiece (Olivia Laing) of queer friendship, first love, and unbridled youth.It's four in the morning, and our narrator is walking home from the club when they realize the date is February 29th--the birthday of the man who was something like their first love. Piecing together art, letters, and memory, they set about trying to write the story of a doomed affair that first sparked and burned a decade ago.Ten years earlier, our young narrator and a boy named Thomas James fall into bed with one another over the summer of their graduation. Their ensuing affair, with its violent, animal intensity and its intoxicating and toxic power plays initiates a dance of