![]() There are three central characters and several genres working at the book's core: young Bo who is actively grieving his mother's death Blue, a mute middle-aged man who just came out of a two-month coma and half-Korean queer magazine worker Brandon, 28, who is fired just before Christmas. ![]() This debut reads like a fever dream caught in a spinning house of mirrors. ![]() "Flux" by Jinwoo Chong, $26.99 (Melville House) This is a surprising engrossing story of innocence, obsession and desire. Though theirs is not the only relationship the novel explores - Natalie's dorm-mate Clara is on hand to create even more insecurities as well as a classmate having an affair with a poetry professor - the age gap and power structure dynamics between Natalie and Nora is kept front and center in a page-turning novel that explores the emotionally revelatory nature of sexual awakenings. Enter Nora, a woman almost twice her age, who seduces her and unleashes a torrent of self-doubt, self-conscious stress, and the kind of sexual energy that percolates with desire and need throughout the story. Toronto lesbian author Fischer's insightful coming-of-age novel follows eighteen-year-old poet Natalie as she embarks on her first year at a Canadian college. ![]() "The Adult" by Bronwyn Fischer, $27 (Algonquin Books) May 23 ![]()
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