In
Ivan and Misha, a novel in linked stories
by Michael Alenyikov, events swirl around fraternal twins and their father,
Louie, as they make their way from Soviet-era Kiev to New York City in the late
nineties and early aughts. Socially adrift, father and sons search for meaning
in their divergent romantic relationships. Louie embarks on a traditional
heterosexual dating relationship late in life, Ivan is sexually opportunistic
and omnivorous, and Misha is torn between his family and the prospect of a
committed gay relationship. The brothers’ search for connection leads them
through a multitude of subcultures, all depicted in vivid detail.
40 Wild Crushes: Stories by Lambda Literary Award
Winner Jim Provenzano is comprised of new and previously stories, as well as
excerpts from Provenzano’s forthcoming novels. He presents teenage lust in
summer theatre, cheating boyfriends on “The Tonight Show,” a transgender
performer on the rise, and an escapee from a pumpkin farm—among other vivid
characters and stories. Varying from terse accounts of an anti-gay assault to a
post-9/11 moment of resolution, Provenzano shares a diverse array of contemporary
experiences in rural Ohio and New York City, at funerals and wrestling matches,
inside Manhattan cathedrals and Paris museums.
The
Root by Na’amen Gobert Tilahun is a dark, gritty urban
fantasy debut set in modern-day San Francisco, filled with gods, sinister
government agencies, and worlds of dark magic hidden just below the surface. When a secret government agency trying to enslave you isn’t the biggest
problem you’re facing, you’re in trouble. A darkness is coming,
something no one has faced in living memory. It eats. It hunts. In The Root,
a dark and surging urban fantasy, two worlds must come together if even a
remnant of one is to survive.
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