num_pages: 192
description: Boy Oh Boy is a collection of queer fabulist stories and flash fictions told via second person asking readers to share Dosss explorations of joy and longing. Your boyfriend is many boyfriends possibly all the boyfriends youve ever had or will have. But you must ask yourself whether you have them or they have you. Your boyfriend plays jokes on youplays jokes on the world. He is forever unattainable and still you love your boyfriend even when it hurts you. Doss explores how relationships can be all-consuming how we transform ourselves to fit within their contour. Eventually you might change so much that you dont even fit inside your own body. This book is so much about spacethe physical emotional and mental spheres that everyone inhabits. Doss uses humor to deal with the isolation that each of us experiencesnot because were alone but because weve become detached from ourselves our needs and our desires. Boy Oh Boy is our chance to understand Zachary Doss as well as our strangest selves.
language: English
title: Boy Oh Boy
publisher: Red Hen Press