![]() ![]() This is a feature, not a bug: instead of aggressively pursuing a series of tightly woven plotlines, readers may have the sense that they're peering through the narrator’s window randomly and of their own free will, observing his latest state each time. This is a novel with a short story sensibility many of the chapters stand on their own, hanging together only in the loosest sense. ![]() His growth is in his responses, which range from acquiescence to refusal, and it is this engine that propels the reader forward through a series of tenuously connected chapters that advance in irregular chronological intervals. Mitko is beautiful, self-assured, and an enigma, and the narrator finds it hard to resist him. After they meet for the first time in a public bathroom, Mitko flits in and out of the narrator's life with abandon, alternating among offers of sex, hints at love, threats, blackmail, hunger, illness, neediness, rage, and despair. ![]() ![]() The unnamed narrator-an English teacher who lives in the city of Sofia-has an addiction, and that addiction’s name is Mitko. The life of an American expat living in Bulgaria intersects repeatedly with that of a young gay hustler in this gorgeous debut novel from Greenwell. ![]()
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