Sebastián’s Reviews > The Gathering > Status Update

"Maybe this is what they are about, these questions of which or whose hole, the right fluids in the wrong places, these infantile confusions and small sadisms: they are a way of fighting our way out of all this meat (I would like to just swim out, you know? – shoot like a word out of my mouth and disappear with a flick of my tail)"

"They are wearing each other away; both of them amazed by the thinness of skin that happens just there; how close they can be, blood to blood, so that the ticking, afterwards, of one inside the other, might be a joke, or a pulse – the beating in your veins of someone else’s heart."

don't know what i expected this book to be but it wasn't a depressed narrator writing artful sex scenes for her dead grandparents

"Nugent thinks of the swell of his glans easing out from its sack of skin and Ada thinks about love, while the hotel clock slips, and softly grinds, and whirrs into the quarter-hour chimes. Dee dee de dee dah! Dah dah de dee dah!"