LAMBDA LITERARY OCTOBERS MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQIA LITERATURE49th SHELF TOP 22 BOOKS OF 2022Is love real if the beloved isnt Girl Interrupted meets Rebecca in this taut tale of love and madnessamp10amp10When Tia meets Pacifique itamp8217s a onceinalifetime love They spend five wild days and nights together and then Tia wakes up in an ambulance with a collarbone broken in a bike accident and no trace of Pacifique Unable to convince anyone that Pacifique exists Tia winds up in a psychiatric ward forced to face the possibility that this perfect lover may be a figment of her imagination While there Tia meets Andrew a contemplative man with schizophrenia who falls in love with Tia He too tells her to forget Pacifique Who to believe The medical establishment and her fellow patients Or her frail human memory And if Pacifique truly is a figment is life in the quotreal worldquot with Andrew enoughamp34In concise and vibrant prose Sarah L Taggart illuminates the dark corners of delusion or is it delusion and a mentalhealth system that consigns people to endless limbo Lucid and destabilizing graceful and raw this novel asks is losing oneamp8217s sanity so different from falling in loveamp34 Deborah Willis author of The Dark and Other Love Storiesamp34Pacifique turns the psychological thriller on its head allowing madness to be a meaningful lens through which to see the world instead of a cheap plot twist Taggart has created a stunning smart and revolutionary novel here one that...
