![]() ![]() Boy Oh Boy is our chance to understand Zachary Doss, as well as our strangest selves.įIERCE FEMMES AND NOTORIOUS LIARS: A DANGEROUS TRANS GIRL’S CONFABULOUS MEMOIR is the highly sensational, ultra-exciting, sort-of true coming-of-age story of a young Asian trans girl, pathological liar, and kung-fu expert who runs away from her parents’ abusive home in a rainy city called Gloom. Doss uses humor to deal with the isolation that each of us experiences-not because we’re alone, but because we’ve become detached from ourselves, our needs, and our desires. This book is so much about space-the physical, emotional, and mental spheres that everyone inhabits. Eventually, you might change so much that you don’t even fit inside your own body. Doss explores how relationships can be all-consuming, how we transform ourselves to fit within their contour. He is forever unattainable, and still you love your boyfriend, even when it hurts you. Your boyfriend plays jokes on you-plays jokes on the world. But you must ask yourself whether you have them or they have you. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your boyfriend is many boyfriends, possibly all the boyfriends you’ve ever had or will have. Boy Oh Boy is a collection of queer fabulist stories and flash fictions told via second person, asking readers to share Doss’s explorations of joy and longing. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I was convinced that when my parents’ attention was elsewhere, they would grab me. As a kid, they seriously freaked me out in every store we walked into. I don’t know about you, but I’ve always found department store mannequins creepy. The attempted joke plays out in the first two chapters, so it’s not a spoiler to say things don’t go as planned and that the rest of the story builds off of what did or didn’t happen to the mannequin. Three of the teens decide to sneak a mannequin they’d found and played with as kids into the movie theatre their fourth friend works in and plan to use it to cause a ruckus. In this case, the ordinary moment is a simple practical joke between high school friends who have grown up together and know each other almost too well. One of the things I love about pretty much every Stephen Graham Jones book I’ve read is his ability to take very ordinary moments and spin horror out of them. I read it one sitting because I could not let myself look away. Stephen Graham Jones’ Night of the Mannequins is a phenomenally scary take on the monstrous serial killer trope. MY THOUGHTS: Note: I read an electronic advance review copy provided through NetGalley. ![]() 136 pages, Tor.com Publishing, ISBN 9781250752079 (paperback, ebook)ĭESCRIPTION: (from Goodreads): A contemporary horror story where a teen prank goes very wrong and all hell breaks loose: is there a supernatural cause, a psychopath on the loose, or both? ![]() ![]() More tracks like The Quarter Storm (Mambo Reina, #1) (Veronica G. ![]()
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