Gay Books
Gay books traditionally deal with love between men, but in real life that love is simply part of ordinary life for millions of men. Kabuki in a G-String by M.S. Simpson takes gay books to where writers like David Leavitt, Christopher Bram and others have – to ordinariness, in which the struggle for identity is complex but natural. In this novel, Chad Newsome, who left West Texas in his youth, must decide whether to stay in Paris with his French Moroccan partner or return to West Texas. To be gay in Paris is not the same as being gay in Lubbock, Texas. As in other gay books, 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. Gay books may change perceptions, as this one does, but it also promotes a strong view of love between men as an ordinary aspect of human life – a way of achieving and maintaining intimacy.
Like the novels in this genre before it,this novel captures the reader’s attention. It places characters in the middle of exciting, sophisticated Paris and America’s ongoing and depressing culture wars.
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