![]() ![]() Penfield is obsessed with Aiden Chase, a trans influencer with rock-star abs and an aesthetic vision befitting Joshua Tree and Ingrid Goes West. In a sleight of hand at the novel’s beginning, Penfield reveals, “And I was still working on the whole verbalizing my thoughts thing.” Penfield’s lens is one that will skew reality or omit key revelations and insight. Penfield reads as a twenty-first century, zippy and social media-using update of Holden Caulfield–employing textspeak such as tho and str8 instead of studied niceties. Henderson, a trans man who lives with two roommates–a witch and a hacker–in a New York City closet apartment. ![]() But such is the mode of Joss Lake’s debut novel Future Feeling, the playful and pleasurable journey of three trans men from New York to Los Angeles through imagined landscapes supported by a (sometimes holographic) network of queer elders. Rare is the novel that brings together witches, influencer culture, and a speculative future uncomfortably twisted from our own reality. ![]()
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