Sex Goblin by Lauren Cook Paperback Book 9781643622330

A weird wild ride across nonnarrative vignettes and dryly funny aphorisms exploring the shared intensity of violence and the eroticamp160As 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 narrators childlike voice all things become both mundane and strangea 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