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Rat Bohemia - First published in 1995, this award-winning novel is a bold, achingly honest story set in the rat bohemia of New York City, whose huddled masses include gay men and lesbians abandoned by their families and forced to find new bonds with one another in the wake of this loss. Navigating the currents of the city are three friends: Rita Mae, a rat exterminator; Killer, a career plant-waterer; and David, an HIV-positive writer. Together, they seek new ways to be truthful and honest about their lives as others around them avert their glances. Alternately elegiac, defiant, and funny, Rat Bohemia is an expansive novel about how one can cope with loss and heal the wounds of the past by reinventing oneself in the city. Rat Bohemia won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction and was named one of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels of All Time by the Publishing Triangle.


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Book Details

⚡️Book Title : Rat Bohemia
⚡Book Author : Sarah Schulman
⚡Page : 232 pages
⚡Published October 1st 1995 by Dutton Books (first published 1995)

Rat Bohemia

First published in 1995, this award-winning novel is a bold, achingly honest story set in the rat bohemia of New York City, whose huddled masses include gay men and lesbians abandoned by their families and forced to find new bonds with one another in the wake of this loss. Navigating the currents of the city are three friends: Rita Mae, a rat exterminator; Killer, a career plant-waterer; and David, an HIV-positive writer. Together, they seek new ways to be truthful and honest about their lives as others around them avert their glances. Alternately elegiac, defiant, and funny, Rat Bohemia is an expansive novel about how one can cope with loss and heal the wounds of the past by reinventing oneself in the city. Rat Bohemia won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction and was named one of the 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels of All Time by the Publishing Triangle.