Blackouts by Justin Torres review – a queer-gothic dreamworld
A marginalised history is salvaged from real‑life medical records in this strange and glorious novel
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A marginalised history is salvaged from real‑life medical records in this strange and glorious novel
Even as Justin Torres was riding accolades for his debut novel, 'We the Animals,' he was on a 12-year journey to a wilder, deeper follow-up, 'Blackouts.'
Justin Torres features none of the materials that usually occupy a political novel. There are no riot scenes, no courtroom confrontations. Rather, the primary drama is intimate: the hushed conversations between two men in a hospice.
In Justin Torres’s riddling new novel, a man tells his dying lover about the forgotten activist Jan Gay – a story woven into the lover’s own
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