Back to All Events

Queer Reads -- PAUL TAKES THE FORM OF A MORTAL GIRL

  • Lost City Books 2467 18th Street Northwest Washington, DC, 20009 United States (map)

Queer Book Club will be meeting Wednesday March 12th at 7 pm; we will be reading Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor.

About the book:

It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flaneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. 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.

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.