Andrea Lawlor's incredible debut novel transposes Virginia Woolf's Orlando to 90s San Francisco and 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.
A wild, sexy, funny and moving story of living on the edge.