Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

2017 • 354 pages

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15

Not sure why this one took me so long to finish, because I liked it very much. A gender-shifting Paul (could sort of be compared to Virginia Woolf's Orlando) mutates through college/punk life in Iowa, Provincetown, and San Francisco, pretty much being Paul/Polly throughout, depending on sexual encounter preferences. Lots of Patti Smith, classic rock music, Michigan Womyn's Festival references.

April 11, 2018