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  • Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

  • By: Andrea Lawlor
  • Narrated by: Dani Martineck
  • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (102 ratings)

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Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

By: Andrea Lawlor
Narrated by: Dani Martineck
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Summary

It’s 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a lesbian best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul’s also got a secret: he’s a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Women’s Studies major to trade, Paul transforms his body at will in a series of adventures that take him from Iowa City to Boystown to Provincetown and finally to San Francisco – a journey through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure.

Andrea Lawlor’s debut novel offers a speculative history of early 90s identity politics during the heyday of ACT UP and Queer Nation. Paul Takes the Form of A Mortal Girl is a riotous, razor-sharp bildungsroman whose hero/ine wends his way through a world gutted by loss, pulsing with music, and opening into an array of intimacy and connections.
©2019 Andrea Lawlor (P)2019 Penguin Random House LLC
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  • Categories: LGBTQ+
Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Queer San Francisco
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'Playful, sexy, smart, and like nothing else I -or you - have ever read before.' Carmen Maria Machado

'Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is quite simply one of the most exciting - and one of the most fun - novels of the decade.' Garth Greenwell

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a beautiful story of being

the narrator's voice takes you on a journey of being. Beautiful, clever and sexy.

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Great this book exists

Whilst I appreciate the importance of this book existing, I feel as though it lacked storyline somewhat.

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