100 Boyfriends [Paperback]

Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction. ANew York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice. Longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. One ofBuzzfeed's Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2021, NBC's 10 Most Notable LGBTQ Books of 2021, andPink News' Best LGBTQ Books of 2021.

This hurricane of delirious, lonely, lewd tales is a taxonomy and grand unified theory of the boyfriend, in every tense. Parul Sehgal,The New York Times

I loved this bookraunchy, irreverent, deliberate, sexy, angry, and tender, in its own way. Roxane Gay

An irreverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero

Transgressive, foulmouthed, and brutally funny, Brontez Purnells100 Boyfriendsis a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. As they tiptoe through minefields of romantic, substance-fueled misadventurefrom dirty warehouses and gentrified bars in Oakland to desolate farm towns in AlabamaPurnells characters strive for belonging in a world that dismisses them for being Black, broke, and queer. In spite of itor perhaps because of itthey shine.

Armed with a deadpan wit, Purnell finds humor in even the darkest of nadirs with the peerless zeal, insight, and horniness of a gay punk messiah. Together, the slice-of-life tales that writhe within100 Boyfriendsare an inimitable tour of an unexposed queer underbelly. Holding them together is the vision of an iconoclastic storyteller, as fearless as he is human.