Blackouts: A Novel

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WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

An intimate, emotionally rich novel, in which two men – young and old – reckon with queer histories and their place within them, from the critically acclaimed author of We the Animals

Juan Gay is on his deathbed. He has decided to spend his last days in The Palace: a monumental, fading institution in the desert, which was an asylum in another lifetime. There, a young man tends to this dying soul – someone who Juan met only once, but who has haunted the edges of his life ever since.

As the end approaches, the two trade stories – resurrecting lost loves, lives, mothers and fathers – and their lives are woven, ineluctably, into a broader story of pathology and oppression. Charged with sifting through Juan’s belongings, our narrator uncovers a copy of Sex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns, its pages blacked out, censored, reduced down to poetic dispatches. And, as he sifts through the manuscript, another story is told: that of Jan Gay – a radical, queer anthropologist – whose ground-breaking work was co-opted, and stifled, by the committee she served.

Blackouts is a haunting, dreamlike rumination on memory and erasure, blending fact with fiction – drawing from historical records, screenplays, testimony and image – to force us to look again at the world we have inherited and the narratives we have received.

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Publisher

Granta Books, 1st edition (2 Nov. 2023)

Language

English

Hardcover

320 pages

ISBN-10

1847083978

ISBN-13

978-1847083975

Dimensions

13.5 x 2.2 x 21.6 cm

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    by Nemra

    This book is a wonderful mix of culture, love, stories, truth, lies, childhood, growth, and many other things. The writing is beautiful, the conversations are sharp, and it explores queer history and memory. It’s a unique and exciting book that really caught my attention.

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