Title: Beauty Salon
First published: 2009
Description: A strange plague appears in a large city. Rejected by family and friends, some of the sick have nowhere to finish out their days until a hair stylist decides to offer refuge. He ends up converting his beauty shop, which he’s filled with tanks of exotic fish, into a sort of medieval hospice. As his “guests” continue to arrive and to die, his isolation becomes more and more complete in this dream-hazy parable by one of Mexico’s cutting-edge literary stars.
Subjects: Beauty shops, Diseases, Gay men, Fiction, Mexican fiction, Peruvian Mexicans, Plague, AIDS (Disease), Epidemics, Peluqueros, Salones de belleza, Epidemias, Ficción, LGBTQ HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ novels, Stonewall Book Awards, Fiction, general
LC classification: PQ7298.12.E4 S2513 2009