Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to Juan Gay. Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book, Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns, and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay. The voices of these subjects have been filtered, muted, but it is possible to hear them from within...

"From the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians--"a Fight Club for the Millennial Generation" (Mat Johnson)--a gender-bending, body-switching novel that explores marriage, identity, and sex, and raises profound questions about the nature of true partnership"--

"Mike is a Japanese American chef and Benson is a Black day care teacher. They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives for a visit, Mike flies across the world to say goodbye. In Japan he undergoes an extraordinary transformation. Back home, Mitsuko and Benson are stuck living together and...

A celebration of a day in the life of a nonbinary child.

After not being able to have a sweet sixteen party, Mahalia decides to throw a coming out party to celebrate love and herself.

When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer, and polarizing shape-shifter - falls dead in her office, her widow, wild with grief and refusing everyone's good advice, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognized as a crucial creative force of her era, she kept a tight grip on her life story. Not even CM, her wife, knew where X had been born, and in her quest to find out, she opens a Pandora's box of secrets,...

"Frances Janvier spends her time studying and making fan art for her favorite podcast, Universe City. Aled Last is known as a smart, quiet kid; no one knows that he's also the creator of Universe City and goes by the name Radio Silence online. When Frances gets a message from Radio Silence asking if she'll collaborate with him, everything changes. She and Aled spend an entire summer working together-- and becoming best friends. But when Aled's identity...

Fi is a bookish treasure hunter with a knack for ruins and riddles. Shane is a warrior from the north who likes cracking skulls, pretty girls, and doing things her own way. Briar Rose is a prince under a sleeping curse, who's been waiting a hundred years for the kiss that will wake him.

This winter has been a tough one for Tori, Charlie and Oliver Spring. They are all trying to get through Christmas Day with minimum drama. For Oliver that means Mario Kart with his brother and sister, but for Tori and Charlie it means putting the past few months behind them. Wil this Christmas drive the Spring family apart or start to put them back together? --Back cover.

Rachel Kushner meets David Lynch in this fever dream of an LA novel about a young woman who commits a drunken act of violence just before her sister vanishes without a trace. On the night of her high school graduation, a young woman follows her older sister, Debbie, to Salvation--a Los Angeles bar patronized by energy healers, aspiring actors, and all-around misfits. After the two share a bag of unidentified pills, the evening turns into a haze of...