All friends are necessary : a novel
Call Number
- FICTION MONI (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2024.
Physical Description
266 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"Chino Flores, a queer Latino in his late thirties, was a beloved middle school biology teacher with an adoring wife and a child on the way until a devastating loss dramatically changed his life and he relies on his coterie of new and old friends and lovers in this anthem to queer and platonic love"--
Contents
- Part one. The body is a wild, wild thing
- Like needle to record
- The tenderness in books and friends
- Anonymous armpits and desire paths
- Who doesn't like bubbles?
- What name did you choose?
- The world is a beautiful place
- What are friends for?
- The strange reverence for out bodies and all their messiness
- What some things will do to survive
- Part two. Life cycle of a fern
- Part three. 2020 is going to be my year
- To sing perverted songs out loud
- Together
- Masks up, pants down
- Balls and stars
- Every homie needs a nickname
- Vaccines and the beauty of pee troughs
- The baby
- Breathless but ready for anything
- Tio Flores
- Signed at Casa Wildflower
- Family chooses you
- Ochre and golden and sparkly
- Grieving is a thing no one teaches you how to do
- What are the other elephants doing?
- Rebel girl.