Frumkin Rafael - Bugsy & Other Stories - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: From the author of Confidence and The Comedown comes a wildly imaginative story collection about queerness neurodivergence sexuality and self - discovery. Frumkin's latest book is a deliciously entertaining collection of five genre - defying stories that range from downright hilarious to brilliantly unhinged. Taken together they celebrate a wide variety of human experiences. In the title story a queer young adult with bipolar disorder drops out of college in a fog of depression aimlessly drifting between maintaining their job at a fast food restaurant and dodging their mom's texts. But when they fall in with a group of sex workers starring in BDSM films they find radical freedom love and community. In other stories we meet a psychiatrist whose meticulously - maintained life is upended by an Alex Trebek - like voice in his head an e - girl celebrity who is being courted by a delusional fan a young boy on the spectrum at odds with a neurotypical world determined to cure him and an elderly woman whose consciousness is being transformed by her oncoming death. With incredible insight compassion and honesty Frumkin unravels each story with tantalizing precision. Sexy and raw and compulsively readable this collection offers a look at our innermost selves as we all try to make sense of the world and our place in it.
Title: Bugsy & Other Stories
Author(s): Frumkin Rafael
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9781982189761
Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Date: 2/13/2024
Category: Short Stories