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Paul takes the form of a mortal girl : a novel / Andrea Lawlor.

by Lawlor, Andrea.

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Rescue Press, 2017.

Shapeshifting -- Fiction.

Gay culture -- Fiction.

Lesbian culture -- Fiction.

Riot grrrl movement -- Fiction.

Nineteen nineties -- Fiction.

9780986086991 (trade pbk.)

354 p. ; 19 cm.

"It'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 flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Women's Studies major to trade, Paul transforms his body at will in a series of adventures that take him from Iowa City to Boystown to Provincetown and finally to San Francisco--a journey through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure. Andrea Lawlor's debut novel offers a speculative history of early '90s identity politics during the heyday of ACT UP and Queer Nation. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is a riotous, razor-sharp bildungsroman whose hero/ine wends his way through a world gutted by loss, pulsing with music, and opening into an array of intimacy and connections."--From publisher.

Magic realism (Literature)

Literary fiction.

Historical fiction.

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