![]() ![]() ![]() With lyric intensity and startling eroticism, Garth Greenwell has created an indelible story about the ways in which our pasts and cultures, our scars and shames can shape who we are and determine how we love. Debut novelist Garth Greenwell took a different tack to protest HB2. What Belongs to You is a stunning debut novel of desire and its consequences. In his debut novel You Don’t Belong Here the queer writer sets the stage with protagonist Morris, a bisexual writer from the D.C. There are unnerving similarities between his past and the foreign country he finds himself in, a country whose geography and griefs he discovers as he learns more of Mitko’s own narrative, his private history of illness, exploitation, and want. 'Garth Greenwells What Belongs to You appeared in early 2016, and is a short first novel by a young writer still, it was not easily surpassed by anything that appeared later in the year. As he struggles to reconcile his longing with the anguish it creates, he’s forced to grapple with his own fraught history, the world of his southern childhood where to be queer was to be a pariah. ![]() He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, drawn by hunger and loneliness and risk, and finds himself ensnared in a relationship in which lust leads to mutual predation, and tenderness can transform into violence. There he meets Mitko, a charismatic young hustler, and pays him for sex. On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher enters a public bathroom beneath Sofia’s National Palace of Culture. ![]()
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