
Sex Goblin
by Lauren Cook
Title:
Sex Goblin
Author:
Lauren Cook
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
184 pages, Illustrations
Publisher:
Nightboat Books
ISBN-13:
9781643622330
EAN:
9781643622330
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
374
Dimensions (mm):
147 x 216 x 16
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
A weird, wild ride across non-narrative vignettes and dryly funny aphorisms exploring the shared intensity of violence and the erotic. As if hauled up squirming from the bowels of the internet, Sex Goblin metabolizes sex writing, popular culture, and autofiction to present the real and the imagined as equally surreal possibilities. In the narrator’s childlike voice, all things become both mundane and strange—a child and their dog fused after a car accident, moments of tenderness amidst frat hazing, witches, and hiking accidents. At turns charming and bizarre, Sex Goblin channels sexual violence through the lens of the absurd to alchemize shame and abuse into something that registers differently than trauma. Sex Goblin is a barely factual but deeply felt field guide to relationships and relatability.











