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"Schulman crafts a piercing investigation into desire, mores, and the law."—Publishers Weekly
"An important work of American literature. That this is probably not how the book will be handled, reviewed, shelved, sold and read makes the novel all the more necessary and true."—Lambda Book Report
"Sarah Schulman is one our most articulate observers."—The Advocate
"In true Schulman form, the book has a gleaming intelligence and chilled anger. It's beautifully blunt and plainspoken."—L.A. Weekly
"A thought-provoking story on a controversial subject. . . . To her credit, Schulman forces the reader to question common societal assumptions."—Library Journal
The Child, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, is the eleventh and perhaps most controversial book by acclaimed lesbian writer Sarah Schulman, available for the first time in paperback. This novel explores the parameters of queer teen sexuality against a backdrop of hysteria and sanctioned homophobia, based on the 1997 sexual assault and murder of an eleven-year-old boy by a fifteen-year-old.
Stew is a lonely teen who discovers love on an adult website. But when his older boyfriend is arrested in an Internet pedophilia sting, his proclivities are revealed to his family and friends, to his horror. Devastated by these revelations and left to fend for himself, he ends up committing murder.
Brazen and daring in its themes, The Child is a powerful indictment of sex panic in America, and a plaintive meditation on isolation and desire.
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Roy Tsukishima
reviewed The Child on October 13, 2016 The Child
Somehow Sarah managed to write her funniest book about her most difficult and controversial subject matter. I'd long wanted to read this book, as someone who was frequently a 'Stew' as a disaffected gay teen in the early 2000s, and was not disappointed. This novel is what happens when you take one of Dennis Cooper's boys and plug them into real life - and just like in Dennis Cooper's novels: adults are rarely out to help anyone but themselves. Sarah's writing injects moments of surprising humour into a worst case scenario that grabs at the root of homophobia - the heterosexual family and its refusal to listen - and it's devastating consequences on the lives of queer teens, adults, and relationships.
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