Gay Book Clubs
Gay book clubs are reading and discussing Kabuki in a G-String by M.S. Simpson. Set in Paris, it brings to gay book clubs a novel in which the struggle for identity is complex and complicated. For gay book clubs, this novel offers gay Chad Newsome, a man who left West Texas in his youth, who must make the decision whether to stay in Paris with his partner or return to his place of birth. To be gay in Paris is not the same as being gay in Lubbock, Texas. This is grist for discussion by all gay book clubs.
As Chad’s cousin Roberta Martin discovers in her quest to bring her wayward cousin home, much of what she has been taught about gay men and their lifestyles dissolves amid the beauty and sophistication of Paris. A good gay novel may change perceptions, as this one does, but as gay book clubs know, it also promotes an authentic and embracing view of love between men as an ordinary aspect of human life – a way of achieving and maintaining intimacy. This novel places characters in the middle of both dynamic, exciting Paris and America’s ongoing hurtful culture wars. Gay book clubs would find Kabuki in a G-String an entry point to deeper discussions about identity and love.
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