{"product_id":"my-house-gathers-desires-9781942683414","title":"My House Gathers Desires","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdam McOmber's lush, hallucinatory stories are both familiar and wholly original. Drawn from the historical record, Biblical lore, fairy tales, science fiction, and nightmares, these offbeat and fantastical works explore gender and sexuality in their darkest and most beautiful manifestations. In the tradition of Angela Carter or Kelly Link, \u003ci\u003eMy House Gathers Desires\u003c\/i\u003e is covertly funny and haunting, seeking fresh ways to consider sexual identity and its relation to history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \"Sodom and Gomorrah,\" readers encounter a subversive, ecstatic new version of the Old Testament story. In \"The Re'em,\" a medieval monk's search for a mythic beast conjures forbidden desire. And in \"Notes on Inversion,\" the German psychiatrist Kraft-Ebbing receives a surreal retort to his clinical descriptions of same-sex desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"Sodom and Gomorrah\":\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe strangers then are no longer like two men at all. They have undressed themselves, giving up the pretense of skin and becoming a denser part of the air. We are hungry for them. Ours is a sacred desire that was buried too long in our chests, like some city beneath the sand.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdam McOmber\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe White Forest\u003c\/i\u003e (Touchstone, 2012) and \u003ci\u003eThis New \u0026amp; Poisonous Air\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA, 2011), from which he had stories nominated for two 2012 Pushcart Prizes. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eConjunctions, Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFairy Tale Review\u003c\/i\u003e. He served as the managing and associate editor of \u003ci\u003eHotel America\u003c\/i\u003e at Columbia College Chicago from 2007-2015. He now lives in Los Angeles, CA, where he teaches at Loyola Marymount University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An otherworldly collection of tales rich with mystery, suspense, and eroticism.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS  Hydrophobia        \t\t Petit Trianon   \t\t                        \t\t\t                                    Sodom and Gomorrah  Poet and Underworld  Swaingrove  Versailles, 1623 \t\t\t\t\t          \t\t\t The Rite of Spring \t\t\t\t\t\t  Homunculus  \t\t\t\t\t            The Coil                          Sleep and Death\t\t\t\t  Night is Nearly Done  The Re’em       Metempsychosis    History of a Saint    Notes on Inversion","brand":"BOA Editions, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360282640727,"sku":"9781942683414","price":11.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781942683414.jpg?v=1754127216","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/my-house-gathers-desires-9781942683414","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}