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Book Title

Crawl

Subtitle
Stories
Author 1
Max Delsohn
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People called it paradise, but baby, it wasn’t.
 
What to do when starting testosterone unlocks a newfound desire for men? How to respond when your boss’s boss asks if you’ve had “the surgery” and then requests you talk her niece out of transitioning? What obligation do you have to intervene in the faltering mental health of the baby trans drug dealer you’ve met only once while tripping on the acid he sold you?
 
The young transmasculine characters in Crawl navigate these and other questions in the dive bars, bathhouses, parks, workplaces, music venues, beaches, and college campuses of 2010s Seattle. Max Delsohn’s stories—by turns exuberant, heartfelt, tragic, and wry—portray the pleasures and pains of sex and romance, the possibilities and ambivalences of gender expression, and the joys and failures of community in a city and a time that has branded itself a radical queer utopia but proves much more complicated in reality.

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$17.00
ISBN
ISBN
978-1-64445-361-2
Format
Format
Paperback
Publication Date
Publication Date
Subject
Subject
Pages
Pages
224
Trim Size
Trim Size
5.5 x 8.25
Keynote
A darkly comic, introspective debut collection that looks beneath the surface of trans life in 2010s Seattle

About the Author

Max  Delsohn
Credit: Quinn Tucker
Max Delsohn’s writing appears in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, VICE, Joyland, The Rumpus, and Triangle House, among other places. He earned an MFA from Syracuse University. He lives in Los Angeles.
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Praise

  • “Dryly humorous and poignant . . . these exacting stories seethe with blunt honesty.”—Publishers Weekly
  • “A horny, hilarious, bittersweet romp through millennial transmasc malaise—Crawl aches and charms in turn. Max Delsohn is a writer to watch.”—Carmen Maria Machado
  • “A lust-filled, vibrant collection of tender, juicy stories that recall the hedonism of being young and chasing the next big thrill. Like befriending the women's rugby team and watching them transition one by one in a haze of bong smoke.”—Grace Byron
  • “Max Delsohn is an immense and singular talent who drills down to the messy truth of the human heart and names all its shades of joy and pain.”—Mona Awad
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