NAMED A MUST READ BOOK OF 2023 BY NYLON BOOKRIOT VULTURE THE MILLIONS and MS MAGAZINEA baroque work of intimate myth exploring one womans interdimensional search for beauty and embodiment through kaleidoscopic renderings of hospital corridors brutal breakups and passionate romanceThe Fifth Wound is a phantasmagorical roman amp224agrave clef about passion as a way of life In one dimension this is a love storyAurora ampamp Ezekielamp8212a separation and a reunion In another we witness a tale of multiple traumatic encounters with transphobic violence And on yet another plane a story of ecstatic visionary experience swirls shatters and sparkles Featuring time travel medieval nuns knifings and t4t romance The Fifth Wound indulges the blur between fantasy and reality Its winding sentences open like portals inviting the reader into the intimacy of embodimentamp8212both its pain and its pleasures
