TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lawlor,Andrea
TI  - Paul takes the form of a mortal girl: a novel 
SN  - 9780986086991
AV  - PS3612.A9482 P49 2017
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Rescue Press
KW  - Shapeshifting
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Gay culture
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Lesbian culture
KW  - Riot grrrl movement
KW  - Nineteen nineties
N2  - It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. He studies queer theory, has a dyke best friend, makes zines, and is a flâneur with a rich dating life. But Paul's also got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Oscillating wildly from Riot Grrrl to leather cub, Women's Studies major to trade, Paul transforms his body at will in a series of adventures that take him from Iowa City to Boystown to Provincetown and finally to San Francisco--a journey through the deep queer archives of struggle and pleasure. Andrea Lawlor's debut novel offers a speculative history of early '90s identity politics during the heyday of ACT UP and Queer Nation. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is a riotous, razor-sharp bildungsroman whose hero/ine wends his way through a world gutted by loss, pulsing with music, and opening into an array of intimacy and connections
ER  -