Adulterous Generation

by Amy L. Clark

Adulterous Generation follows young people using what they have to try to create lives for themselves in our still-new century. A teenager turns to Yeats when she is haunted by her boyfriend’s criminal father; inmates of a juvenile justice facility use contraband staples and graphic novels to make meaning of their adolescence; a marriage falls apart over a convict-made cutting board; an expectant mother has a near-sexual, almost mystical experience with a developmentally disabled man in a Laundromat; and a young woman commits a robbery that will take her further than she could have imagined. If love is owing and being owed, the obligations in Amy L. Clark’s first full-length collection endure.

Paperback

Published January 18, 2016

About the author

Amy L. Clark's first novel, Palais Royale, is now available from Engine Books. Their collection of stories, Adulterous Generation, was published by Queen's Ferry Press, and their collection, Wanting, was published by Rose Metal Press as part of the book A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness. Amy's other work was recently anthologized in the Norton Anthology New Micro, and has also appeared in Mudroom, Litro, The Baltimore Review, Queerlings, (mac)ro(mic), Juked, Fifth Wednesday, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Best of the Web and Best of the Net, among other journals and anthologies. They are trans and queer, and also publish under the name Aiden Grace Smith. They teach creative writing, literature, and academic writing at the college level.