Blackouts

Juan Gay lies dying in a room in The Palace: a monumental, fading institution in the desert. There, a young man cares for him - someone whom 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, mothers and fathers - and their lives are woven, ineluctably, into a broader story of sexuality, pathology and oppression. And, through their conversations, another story is told: that of the radical queer anthropologist Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was co-opted, and stifled, by the committee she served.Blending fact with fiction, and drawing on oral histories and historical records, screenplay, testimony and image, Blackouts is a haunting, dreamlike rumination on memory and erasure - on the ways in which stories sustain histories.

Three brothers tear their way through childhood - smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from rubbish, hiding when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn - he's Puerto Rican, she's white. Barely out of childhood themselves, their love is a serious, dangerous thing. Life in this family is fierce and absorbing, full of chaos and heartbreak and the euphoria of belonging completely to one another. From the intense familial unity felt by a child to the profound alienation he endures as he begins to forge his own way in the world, this beautiful novel reinvents the coming-of-age story in a way that is sly and incredibly powerful.

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Galardonada conel National Book Award 2023,unanoveladeslumbrante quedesentierra unepisodiofundacional de lacomunidad queer yexploralosorígenes desupatologización.'Sedifuminanloslímites de la Historia, laautobiografía y laficción conelarte. Hermoso'. Sam Sacks, The Wall Street JournalEn un remoto asilo en el desierto, un hombre joven acompaña a un moribundo. Han pasado diez años desde que coincidieran brevemente en una institución psiquiátrica. Ahora, el que está punto de morir le pide al otro que termine el proyecto al que ha dedicado su vida: la reconstrucción de la singular historia de Jan Gay. Esta investigadora, escritora y activista queer de principios del siglo XX dedicó su vida a documentar las vidas lesbianas y la cultura nudista en Estados Unidos y Europa, y sin embargo su trabajo fue el origen de un manual sobre la homosexualidad como perversión titulado Desviacionessexuales: unestudio delospatroneshomosexuales.La lectura de las misteriosas páginas tachadas de dicho manual infame acompañará las vigilias diurnas que siguen a las calurosas noches de insomnio de aquellos dos hombres. En las horas de oscuridad mantendrán una larga conversación sobre sus vidas y las de Jan Gay y los sujetos que participaron en la truncada investigación.En este atmosférico relato de amor, que es a la vez un collage documental y un homenaje a Pedro Páramo y Elbeso de lamujeraraña, Justin Torres desentierra un episodio borrado de la historia estadounidense para explorar los orígenes de la patologización de la comunidad queer; una bella e imaginativa novela que ha sido merecedora del National Book Award.La crítica ha dicho:'Íntimo, lúdico [...], una rica y poética reivindicación de la herencia cultural'. Beejay Silcox, The Guardian'Sin duda, la novela más sexy de 2023. Un tour deforce'. Hamilton Cain, Star Tribune'Brillante, es como una fábula [...]. Un inteligente ensamblaje de investigación, viñeta, imagen e ingenio'. Charles Arrowsmith, The Washington Post'Un viaje experimental a los anales de la historia queer que es, a partes iguales, una carta de amor intergeneracional y un sueño febril homoerótico'. Jeremy Childs, LosAngeles Times'Una novela de ensueño que se despliega entre el uso de diversos géneros y diálogos socráticos, moviéndose libremente entre la realidad y la ficción mientras sugiere y problematiza cuestiones relacionadas con el modo en que se escribe la Historia'. Joshua Barone, The New York Times'Justin Torres vuelve con otro libro que expande los límites del concepto de novela. Blackouts me sorprendió y me encantó [? un extraño mosaico de sueños y realidad [?]. No podía dejar de leer'. Emily Temple, Literary Hub'Fascinante, ingenioso [?]. La intrincada red narrativa de Torres te atrapa de principio a fin. Sus personajes, ricamente retratados, son apasionados, pero dolorosamente conscientes de sí mismos'. John Clum, New York Journal of Books