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Synopsis
What emerges is an infinite series of false endings--each a trap door containing the possibility for alchemy, rebirth, and renewal. Part elegy, part confessional, part battle cry, Last Sext confronts both eternal longing and the mystery of mortality, with language hot, primal, and dark, as Broder's fans have come to love.
Melissa Broder on PowellsBooks.Blog
My novel,
The Pisces, is the story of a woman who moves to Venice Beach and falls in romantic obsession with a merman whose tail starts below the D. I wanted to explore love as a drug — the urge to annihilate oneself in euphoria — and nothing embodies that dichotomy like the relationship between human and siren...
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