From Paste Magazine’s 10 Underrated Queer Books That Everyone Should Read:5. The Man Who Fell in Lov
From Paste Magazine’s 10 Underrated Queer Books That Everyone Should Read:5. The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon by Tom SpanbauerTom Spanbauer’s old-West epic plays with just about every toxically masculine trope of 1880’s frontier life you can imagine: narrator Shed is a “half-breed” bisexual boy who forms a makeshift family with town mayor/whorehouse mistress Ida, beautiful prostitute Alma, and rancher/lover/possible father Dellwood Barker. Spanbauer doesn’t shy away from hard truths of the era, from racism to a particularly brutal amputation, but his combination of raunchiness and Shed’s affecting search for his identity (not to mention unapologetic bisexuality) make The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon a must-read for readers looking for a truly original, different sort of queer novel. -- source link
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