On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a staircase beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trysts grow increasingly intimate and unnerving as the enigma of this young man becomes inseparable from that of his homeland, Bulgaria, a country with a difficult past and an uncertain future. Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to ...
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On an unseasonably warm autumn day, an American teacher walks down a staircase beneath Sofia's National Palace of Culture, looking for sex. Among the stalls of a public bathroom he encounters Mitko, a charismatic young hustler. He returns to Mitko again and again over the next few months, and their trysts grow increasingly intimate and unnerving as the enigma of this young man becomes inseparable from that of his homeland, Bulgaria, a country with a difficult past and an uncertain future. Garth Greenwell's What Belongs to You is a stunning debut about an American expat struggling with his own complicated inheritance while navigating a foreign culture. Lyrical and intense, it tells the story of a man caught between longing and resentment, unable to separate desire from danger, and faced with the impossibility of understanding those he most longs to know.
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The Iowa Writers Workshop has prestige, leading to acceptance of manuscripts by elite editors. But beware. This--and books like it--may be arty but don't do what fiction needs to do. The lead character, a teacher, pays and then is repeatedly taken financially by a hardened male prostitute. What we learn is merely that the teacher is stupid and that the male prostitute is doing what hustlers typically do. Does that grip you? Do you feel captured by either of these characters--both failing to rise above their worst instincts? I suppose Iowa Writers Workshop knows how to make art out of writing about lowlifes, but that doesn't mean you will want to read this--the outcome is inevitable and the path to it not interesting. No matter the endlessly long (many pages!) paragraphs, the neat wording. The futility of this kind of writing is obvious. You can buy a first edition cheap, which shows that readers aren't fooled.
