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Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Person

In these unconventional, interconnected stories of first-person narratives in an age of text messages and Instagram posts, gay men look for love, steal office supplies, hook up on Grindr, bake pies, see therapists, have threesomes with ghosts, and fear happiness. With wry abandon and a beguiling heart, Everything Is Awful and You're a Terrible Personis a deadpan, tragicomic exploration of love, desire, and dysfunction in the twenty-first century.

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Daniel Zomparelliis editor and founder of Poetry Is Deadmagazine, and the author of the poetry collections Davie Street Translationsand (with Dina Del Bucchia) Rom Com. This is his first work of fiction.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 207 pages

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