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First foray into adult gay literary fiction! My mom got me this book #ally

This book’s dialogue style is so unique. The nameless narrator is relaying what his characters have said to him as if it was a story he was telling you over dinner. It took me a second to figure out but so far I really like it!

“There was no lowest place, I thought, I would strike ground only to feel it give way gaping beneath me, and I felt with a new fear how little sense of myself I have, how there was no end to what I could want or the punishment I would seek. For some moments I wrestled with these thoughts, and then I stood and turned back to the boulevard, composing as best I could my human face.”

saçları ıslak, yazlık elbiseleri içinde bir grup kadının kaldırımda dans ettiğini gördüm; yandaki binanın üst katlarından birinde üstü çıplak, kel, yaşlıca bir adam elinde hortum, gökyüzüne doğru su tutarken ucunu kapatıyordu su yağmur yağıyor gibi dökülsün diye. [...] Sonra aklım bensiz bir yere gitti ve Taksim Meydanı'ndaki tazyikli suyu getirdi gözlerimin önüne, Taksim'de şansın yaver gittiğini düşündüm.