Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Books | Fiction / Literary
3.8
(94)
Andrea Lawlor
"In these irreverent pages, a shapeshifter gets a crash course in gender and sexuality by inhabiting both sides of the binary and arriving precisely somewhere in the middle." —O, The Oprah Magazine“HOT” (Maggie Nelson) • “TIGHT” (Eileen Myles) • “DEEP” (Michelle Tea)A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the CenturyIt's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flaneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Paul transforms his body and his gender at will as he crossed the country––a journey and adventure through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is a riotous, razor-sharp bildungsroman whose hero/ine wends his/her way through a world gutted by loss, pulsing with music, and opening into an array of intimacy and connections.
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Author
Andrea Lawlor
Pages
240
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2019-04-23
ISBN
0525566198 9780525566199
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"The book rambles on and on like someone trying to hit a character count and speaks in a way that’s so unnatural that I can’t attach any feelings to the characters. The only reason it’s not a DNF is because I chose to power through out of spite "
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Tatienne K
"I couldn’t get through it, maybe it got better by I went into it thinking it was a fun critique on discovering gender as a middle aged person. It was not. It also says ‘****’ on the back, it is not. If you like ****** sex scenes, weak commentary, over use of the d-slur, and too many and also not enough details. ✨enjoy✨"
Bingus
"3,5"
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Minoo Bohatkiewicz
"This is my favorite book from the century and had me often asking the book itself are you allowed to write that?"
Darles Charwin
"Enby fiction! A Nonbinary ish protagonist! Gay!, but not just gay, but definitely queer. Irreverent to colonialism and reverent to personal struggle. A book that helped me with my identity."
Rico Perales