Sep 17, 2024
Sam Sax, Yr Dead (McSweeney's, 2024)
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Sam Sax, Yr Dead (McSweeney's, 2024)
Yr Dead, by Sam Sax
Yr Dead by Sam Sax
In between the space of time when Ezra lights themself on fire and when Ezra dies the world of this book flashes before their eyes. Everyone Ezra's ever loved, every place they've felt queer and at home, or queer and out of place, reveals itself in an instant. Unfolding in fragments of memory, Ezra dissolves into the family, religion, desire, losses, pains and joys that made them into the person that's decided on this final act of protest.
Told in lyric fragments that span both lifetimes and geography, Yr Dead is a queer, Jewish, diasporic coming of age story that questions how our historical memory shapes our political and emotional present. Visceral, propulsive, and at turns fluorescently beautiful and fluorescently tragic, Yr Dead is the electric debut novel from award-winning writer Sam Sax, one of our most dynamic and imaginative writers.
Sam Sax, Yr Dead (McSweeney's, 2024)
Yr Dead, by Sam Sax
Yr Dead, by Sam Sax
Sam Sax, Yr Dead (McSweeney's, 2024)
Sam Sax, Yr Dead (McSweeney's, 2024)