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Personal attention roleplay : stories / Helen Chau Bradley.

by Chau Bradley, Helen.

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Metonymy Press, 2021.

Asians -- Fiction.

Gays -- Fiction.

Montréal (Québec) -- Fiction.

9781777485214 (pbk.)

196 p. ; 21 cm.

Maverick -- Personal attention roleplay -- Sheila -- Only the lonely -- New horizions -- The Queue -- Finisterre -- Surface dive -- The end of gods and heroes -- Soft shoulder.

A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mother. A newly queer twenty-something juggles two intimate relationships--with a slippery anarchist lover and an idiosyncratic meals-on-wheels recipient. A queer metal band's summer tour unravels amid the sticky heat of the Northeastern US. A codependent listicle writer becomes obsessed with a Japanese ASMR channel. The stories in Personal Attention Roleplay are propelled by queer loneliness, mixed-race confusion, late capitalist despondency, and the pitfalls of intimacy. Taking place in Montréal, Toronto, and elsewhere, they feature young Asian misfits struggling with the desire to see themselves reflected--in their surroundings, in others, online. Chau Bradley's precise language and investigation of our more troubling motivations stand out in this wryly funny debut, through stories that hint at the uncanny while remaining grounded in the everyday.

Short stories, Canadian.

Canadian fiction.

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