Neotenica
Joon Oluchi Lee
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
Neotenica is a novel of encounters: casual sex, arranged-marriage dates, cops, rowdy teenagers, lawyers, a Sapphic flirtation, a rival, a child, and two important dogs. At the center of it are Young Ae, a Korean-born ballet dancer turned PhD student, and her husband, a Korean-American male who inhabits an interior femininity, neither transgender nor homosexual, but a strong, visceral femininity nonetheless. This novel is an adrenaline filled ride sliding across the surface of desire and chance through the quotidian turned playful.
Kundenbewertungen
gender identy, academia, internalized homophobia, racism, graduate school, children, cities, Korean-American, racialized trauma, racism within immigrant communities, citylife, queer, twenty-somethings, Iowa City, twenties, BART, episodic, antiblackness, gender fluidity, race, cultural identity, Bay Area, relationships, class, inter-racial relationships, Oakland, homophobia within immigrant communities, gender, dogs, family, comedic, fluidity, explicit sex, Asian American, persona, public transit, culture, hook-ups, POC, antiblack, homophobia, Arranged-marriage, avant-garde, femininity, desire, novella, immigrant, early oughts, Berkeley, gender roles