Status Updates From The Fortunate Fall

Awkward baby queers using tapes of whale songs to hit on each other is so deeply mid 90s (when this book was written, not when it is set) I could cry

First page we got Moby Dick, we got Russians, back cover has Charnas comparing this to Brothers Karamazov uhoh my expectations are making a squishy hole in my brain and asking the book to fit in it good

i'm going through this book quite slowly, but the way its concept and its world's history are gradually revealed are so fascinating