Ponyboy

Eliot Duncan's melancholic transboy swagger sparkles in this classic story of a dissolute bookish Midwesterner who crashes through Europe, falling in and out of love and stargazing from the gutter. An astonishing first novelAndrea Lawlor, author of PAUL TAKES THE FORM OF A MORTAL GIRL

[Ponyboy] moves breathlessly through space and time...Through a deft command of language, Duncan is able to create a uniquely trans story that fights for the right to be seenDazed

[A] gutting and glittery three-act coming of age story...The final act takes Ponyboy to rehab, where he unravels his identity, addiction, and recovery - leading his splintered parts to become all that much more himselfNylon

Ponyboy is a novel about self-immolation and rising from your own ashes with a spent match between your teeth. It's also one of the best books I've read about expat dirtbaggery, and it ferociously portrays the velvety allure of oblivion and the terror, eroticism, and bright urgency of coming home to yourselfRebecca Rukeyser, author of THE SEAPLANE ON FINAL DESCENT