In tracking an obsessive relationship that treads the devastating line between dysfunction and abuse, Joseph Osmundson explores how vulnerability, need, and shame echo across a life, and meditates on the complexities, both emotional and ethical, of writing that life. In describing the book, author Garth Greenwell states: Lambda Literary Fellow Joseph Osmundson’s memoir Inside/Out is out this month from Sibling Rivalry Press. When her blissful summer takes an unexpected turn and Takumi becomes her knight with a shiny library employee badge (close enough), Alice has to decide if she’s willing to risk their friendship for a love that might not be reciprocated-or understood. Alice is done with dating-no thank you, do not pass go, stick a fork in her, done.īut then Alice meets Takumi and she can’t stop thinking about him or the rom com-grade romance feels she did not ask for (uncertainty, butterflies, and swoons, oh my!). The only thing missing from her plan? Her girlfriend (who ended things when Alice told her she’s asexual).
Non-stop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows (best friends totally included) with the smallest dash of adulting-working at the library to pay her share of the rent. “Alice is about to ace this whole dating thing,” or so she hopes in Claire Kann’s debut Let’s Talk About Love (Swoon Reads):Īlice had her whole summer planned.
In a word-drunk romp through an alternate, pre-apocalyptic United States, Ana Simo’s fiction debut, Heartland, is the uproarious story of a thwarted writer’s elaborate revenge on the woman who stole her lover, blending elements of telenovela, pulp noir, and dystopian satire. New in January: Ana Simo, Joseph Osmundson, Barrie Jean Borich, and Carl PhillipsĪna Simo combines soap opera dramatics and apocalyptic musings in her genre-bending, new novel Heartland (Restless Books)
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