Jerome Klingemann, Loser Magnet

Second edition: In this contemporary picaresque story oftentimes told with biting sarcasm and as an unforgiving commentary on LGBTQ society, the queer narrator is born to an undistinguished family in a small town in Minnesota. He moves to the big city to pursue a better life through higher education, in an environment more accepting of his sexual orientation. Along the way he experiences more emotional failures than triumphs, especially in his quest for a romantic relationship with a friend of the bosom—while searching in less lofty parts of the male anatomy. After all his labors, he becomes aware that a conquest can be laced with an unforeseen defeat. By the author of Coming of Queer Age in Puerto Rico: The Burden of Memory, That Other Plague, Man of His Dreams, Living in the Raw Wind, The Tango of the Shipwreck, The Silence Barrier, Unsettling Accounts, and Viral Swan Songs: Variations on a Theme by Montagnier. Read more