Middle Spoon Sapphic when the word 'queer' was

when the word 'queer' was still an insult and when doctors and nurses invented their own names for the mysterious disease killing beautiful young men

friendships and relationships

from real-life subjects who've been transported into the future

and with strong respect for boundaries and consent in a society that offers mixed messages on all these things— especially when none of this was part of your own upbringing

Both a brilliant narrative device—seeing the story told in Black Leopard

Middle Spoon Sapphic when the word 'queer' wasBy: Alejandro Varela A whipsmart, blazingly funny novel about heartbreak, unconventional love, and the way society could be, from National Book Award finalist Alejandro Varela The narrator of Middle Spoon appears to be living the dream: He has a doting husband, two precocious children, all the comforts of a quiet bourgeois lifeand a sexy younger boyfriend to accompany him to farmers markets and cocktail parties. But when his boyfriend abruptly dumps