Queer Book Group

Queer Book Group with Alex

Discussing Rat Bohemia by Sarah Schulman

Led by former Greenlight bookseller Alex, our Queer Book Group meets monthly to discuss contemporary fiction and nonfiction titles that relate to queer experience, identity, and community.

For September, the group discusses Sarah Schulman's Rat Bohemia—winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction and named a "100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels of All Time" (Publishing Triangle). Navigating the currents of "rat bohemia" New York City is Rita Mae, a rat exterminator who holds the optimism of all true bohemians; she and her friends seek new ways to be truthful and honest about their lives as others around them avert their glances. First published in 1995, written from the epicenter of the AIDS crisis, Rat Bohemia is a bold and achingly honest novel about coping with loss and healing the wounds of the past by reinventing oneself in the city.

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