A darkly comic, introspective debut collection that looks beneath the surface of trans life in 2010s Seattle
People called it paradise, but baby, it wasnt.
What to do when starting testosterone unlocks a newfound desire for men? How to respond when your bosss boss asks if youve 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 youve met only once while tripping on the acid he sold you?
The young transmasculine characters inCrawlnavigate these and other questions in the dive bars, bathhouses, parks, workplaces, music venues, beaches, and college campuses of 2010s Seattle. Max Delsohns storiesby turns exuberant, heartfelt, tragic, and wryportray 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.
A darkly comic, introspective debut collection that looks beneath the surface of trans life in 2010s SeattleMax Delsohns writing appears in
McSweeneys 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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Max Delsohns wry debut story collection delves into the pleasure and pain of transmasc life in 2010s Seattle. (Siri, play Death Cab). Language Arts
Max Delsohn writes like a throwback transmasc Mary Gaitskill; his melancholy trans guys and various masc gendered people behave badly in their early adulthoods, propelled by longing, procrastinating self-awareness, occasionally getting what they want. Ah, youth! I inhaled this collection like gossip from a far-off citys scene. My favorite new lSq
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