It’s also a story of aging punk rock stars, wildly imagined aliens, and the beauty and stupidity of life as we know it. It’s a touching, deeply universal story of connection, perseverance, and what it means to be human. Author Roxane Gay’s latest book after her essay collection Bad Feminist became a New York Times bestseller is Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, in which she. Thus begins Decibel’s journey as he navigates the narrowing rules of the contest, but also his efforts to tackle his own self-doubt and the many (many) scars from his past. How high stakes? Oh, just determining whether the human race will be welcomed into the universe or wiped from existence. KATE McINTYREs fiction and essays have appeared in such journals as Denver Quarterly, the Cincinnati Review.
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