The Freezer Door

The Freezer Door
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
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Paperback
h203 x 137mm - 264pg
30 Nov 2020 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781635901283
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A meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that enforces bland norms of gender, sexual, and social conformity. When you turn the music off, and suddenly you feel an unbearable sadness, that means turn the music back on, right? When you still feel the sadness, even with the music, that means there' s something wrong with this music. Sometimes I feel like sex without context isn' t sex at all. And sometimes I feel like sex without context is what sex should always be. --The Freezer DoorThe Freezer Door records the ebb and flow of desire in daily life. Crossing through loneliness in search of communal pleasure in Seattle, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore exposes the failure and persistence of queer dreams, the hypocritical allure of gay male sexual culture, and the stranglehold of the suburban imagination over city life. Ferocious and tender, The Freezer Door offers a complex meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that relentlessly enforces bland norms of gender, sexual, and social conformity while claiming to celebrate diversity.
Included in O, the Oprah Magazine' s list of The 42 Best LGBTQ Books of 2020. I really love Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore' s The Freezer Door. In a happy paradox common to great literature, it' s a book about not belonging that made me feel deeply less alone. I so admire its appetite to get down and dirty, to wield non sequitur with grace and power, to ponder the past while sticking with the present, to quest unceasingly. I stand deeply inspired and instructed by its great wit, candor, inventiveness, and majesty. - Maggie Nelson Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore puts sex and gender, suffering and gentrification, encounter and solitude, at the center of a book that defies borders and uses language to dive directly into mystery. I admire Sycamore' s gossamer refusal ever to land anywhere definitive; the sentences travel further and further into trauma' s backyard, where complex ideas find a habitat among the simplest formulations. Sycamore, by breathing into the prose, treats the act of bookbuilding as a practice strange and organic as sleeping, walking, bathing, eating. The Freezer Door delves into the philosophy of the sexual meetingplace with a virtually unprecedented aplomb. - Wayne Koestenbaum The acclaimed queer writer connects the social and economic forces that threaten to freeze out the possibility of deep human connection. - Shelf Awareness
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (mattildabernsteinsycamore. com) is the author of three novels and a memoir and the editor of five nonfiction anthologies. Her memoir, The End of San Francisco, won a Lambda Literary Award in 2014, and her previous book, Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots? Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform, was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her novel Sketchtasy, was one of NPR' s Best Books of 2018. She lives in Seattle.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781635901283
Published: 30 Nov 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Semiotext (E)
Publisher: Semiotext (E)
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 137mm
Pages: 264

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