![]() Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties Restless, muscular, and playful. Review Quotes Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is playful, sexy, smart, and like nothing else I-or you-have ever read before. ![]() 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. ![]() 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. But Pauls also got a secret: hes a shapeshifter. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flaneur with a rich dating life. O, The Oprah Magazine HOT (Maggie Nelson) - TIGHT (Eileen Myles) - DEEP (Michelle Tea) Its 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. Book Synopsis 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. ![]() About the Book Originally published in the United States by Rescue Press, LLC, in Iowa City, Iowa, in 2017. ![]()
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