98 Wounds

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Gay people have never been as free - or as divided - as in today's society. As the gay majority surges into the mainstream, a social construct has emerged depicting 'Good Gays' and 'Bad Gays'. Endless mythmaking goes into dehumanising the Bad. The characters populating 98 Wounds run roughshod in a city spiralling towards collapse. They broker urgent desires in constant pursuit of identity, obsession, rituals of hope, even the simplicity of an ordinary life. They unwaveringly root for their own understanding of belonging, contentment, pleasure and love.

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"Justin Chin is really one of our greatest writers. There is no heartache, no abject striving for connection, no collapse of the body or anguish of the mind invulnerable from the barging in of the absurd, the hyperblast of ever-present pop culture, a queen's irony, a cluck of the tongue and a shake of the head. He regards his pain all of our pain with stoic reverence, while simultaneous slipping a whoopie cushion under our collective ass. He's a master." Michelle Tea
"Justin Chin is really one of our greatest writers. There is no heartache, no abject striving for connection, no collapse of the body or anguish of the mind invulnerable from the barging in of the absurd, the hyperblast of ever-present pop culture, a queen's irony, a cluck of the tongue and a shake of the head. He regards his pain all of our pain with stoic reverence, while simultaneous slipping a whoopie cushion under our collective ass. He's a master." Michelle Tea

Author Bio

Justin Chin is the author of three collections of poetry, Gutted, Bite Hard, and Harmless Medicine, which was a Bay Area Book Reviewers Association Award (BABRA) finalist. He is also thr author of three collectionsof essays, Burden of Ashes (Alyson), Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes and Pranks (St. Martin's), and Attack of the Man-Eating Lotus Blossoms (Suspect Thoughts). Gutted won the Publishing Triangle's Thom Gunn Award in 2007 and was Lambda Literary Award finalist.