Idlewild: A Novel Literary Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love meets

Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love meets Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus in this sizzling debut by a writer as captivating as she is incisive

There's just one thing: Diego is already married and living his happily-ever-after

and queer culture

a staggering coming-of-age novel deeply rooted in the struggles of a trans woman growing up in Madrid

Shadows writhe in the corners of his cell as he mourns the death of his secret lover and as the gnawing hunger inside him grows impossible to ignore

Idlewild: A Novel Literary Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love meetsNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: Vox * The Paris Review * NPR * Vanity Fair A FINALIST FOR THE L. A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR FIRST FICTION James Frankie Thomass Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school novel. Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names,