“ Proximity, as a noun, is the singular most important aspect of how to love another person. Juliet Escoria, author of BLACK CLOUD and JULIET THE MANIAC Heaps rides through their past like Kali, forging something that is equal parts beautiful and terrifying.” This is a dizzying, heartbreaking punch-to-the-gut masterwork. “Calling this book “brave” is an understatement. Sarah Gerard, author of BINARY STAR and TRUE LOVE: A NOVEL “Roman á clef, erotic memoir, and scathing breakup letter, Proximity pulses with pain and desire, requires total abandonment, and demands that we take pleasure in the way it wounds us. Proximity brings you skin to skin with your own unspoken desires. Heaps lets readers become the ultimate voyeurs, displaying nakedly what we secretly feel in our most intimate moments. Sam Heaps is a millennial Anaïs Nin, exploring their most intimate power struggles with a raw and artful voice.Įach partner is a new mask through which the narrator discovers themselves, creating a song through each personal essay of desire and regret - a pop melody with blues undertones. From CLASH Books March 2023, a literary meditation on sex.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |