Bad Seed

Stories

Gabriel Carle, Heather Houde

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English

Feminist Press at The City University of New York
14 August 2024

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories; Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism

A vibrant debut short story collection depicting the disillusionment that comes with being young and queer in Puerto Rico. The visceral, wildly imaginative stories in Bad Seed flick through working-class scenes of contemporary Puerto Rico, where friends and lovers melt into and defy their surroundings-night clubs, ruined streets, cramped rooms with cockroaches moving in the walls. A horny high schooler spends his summer break in front of the TV; a queer love triangle unravels on the emblematic theater steps of the University of Puerto Rico; a group of friends get high and watch San Juan burn from atop a clocktower; an HIV positive college student works the night shift at a local bathhouse. At turns playful and heartbreaking, Bad Seed is the long overdue English-language debut of one of Puerto Rico's most exciting up-and-coming writers.

By: Gabriel Carle
Translated by: Heather Houde
Imprint: Feminist Press at The City University of New York
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 127mm, Width: 203mm,
ISBN: 9781558613201
ISBN 10: 155861320X
Pages: 120
Publication Date: 14 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Gabriel Carle is a writer and academic researching issues of queerness, Indigeneity, and Blackness in Caribbean literature and activism. They completed a BA in creative writing at the UPR, Ro Piedras, and an MFA in creative writing in Spanish at New York University. Bad Seed is an English translation of their debut story collection, Mala Leche, published in Puerto Rico in 2018. They are currently based in New York City. Heather Houde is a self-taught visual artist, writer, and translator from Philadelphia. She is the author of Thin SkinnedThe Southwest Review, .