![]() Marriage equality was an important battle, and I think that it’s tragic that the battle came at the cost of other issues in which lives are at stake. I am glad that this vision exists because it opened a space and possibility that didn’t exist before. There’s this sort of scrubbed, PR vision of gay life, the marriage equality vision of gay life. We don’t talk about cruising much in the age of apps and as the national conversation on gay life has turned to marriage equality. This is a novel very much about “cruising”. Especially when he first introduces characters, there is a Dashiell Hammett-style forthrightness and clarity to it. That said, Greenwell’s exquisitely detailed writing has a distinctly American directness to it. There is a European literary quality to the way he transports the reader to Bulgaria, reminiscent of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled or Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. ![]() In the book Greenwell recreates the jet-lag-like feeling of an American abroad for the reader, at once restless and sleepy, anxious but alert. ![]()
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