People Collide

by

Isle McElroy

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fiction ✧˖°. 256 pages ⋆˙⟡ 2024 ⋆˙⟡ HarperVia

If you took Freaky Friday and made it literary and queer, this is what you’d get. This book is a wild romp on the surface, centering around a husband and his much more succesful wife having an inexplicable and sudden body swap. There’s so much here about intimacy and this asymptotic experience of trying to be truly ‘empathetic’—is it possible? Does it really change us? Does it change how we move in the world?

If you…

🧠 Are feeling philosophical about getting in other peoples’ heads

🍆 Want to read one of the most daring sex scenes

🎬 Desire a final chapter you’ll think about for a while

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Tags

  • sci-fi
  • prosey
  • romantic
  • voicy
  • contemporary

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