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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 2023. Brilliant book. Trans women should not miss this one. Must like romance and poetry. A love story, vaginoplasty, sex work, rape, a stabbing, new york, texas. Mattia uses some words overmuch. Infinitesimal, phantasmagorical, phosphorescence, and topaz, for instance. You have to accept this. Sirens, sorcerers, angels, fairies all cone up a lot. This book is basically an experience you have to have. I savored it, taking it slow. It will make you fall in love with Aurora. It will make other books feel ordinary. ( ) no reviews | add a review
A baroque work of intimate myth exploring one woman's interdimensional search for beauty and embodiment, through kaleidoscopic renderings of hospital corridors, brutal breakups, and passionate romance. The Fifth Wound is a phantasmagorical roman à clef about passion as a way of life. In one dimension, this is a love story--Aurora & Ezekiel--a separation and a reunion. In another, we witness a tale of multiple traumatic encounters with transphobic violence. And on yet another plane, a story of ecstatic visionary experience swirls, shatters, and sparkles. Featuring time travel, medieval nuns, knifings, and t4t romance, The Fifth Wound indulges the blur between fantasy and reality. Its winding sentences open like portals, inviting the reader into the intimacy of embodiment--both its pain and its pleasures. No library descriptions found. |
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