{"product_id":"my-house-gathers-desires","title":"My House Gathers Desires","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdam McOmber’s lush, hallucinatory stories are both familiar and wholly original. Drawn from the historical record, Biblical lore, fairy tales, science fiction, and nightmares, these offbeat and fantastical works explore gender and sexuality in their darkest and most beautiful manifestations. In the tradition of Angela Carter or Kelly Link, \u003cem\u003eMy House Gathers Desires\u003c\/em\u003e is covertly funny and haunting, seeking fresh ways to consider sexual identity and its relation to history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eSodom and Gomorrah,\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e readers encounter a subversive, ecstatic new version of the Old Testament story. In \"The Re’em,\" a medieval monk’s search for a mythic beast conjures forbidden desire. And in \"Notes on Inversion,\" the German psychiatrist Kraft-Ebbing receives a surreal retort to his clinical descriptions of same-sex desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eMy House Gathers Desires\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eClassical in form and feel, these stories wear dread like an antique cabinet wears a patina: richly and fully, intensely integrated with the beauty of the writing itself. Somber and subtly alarming, and well worth the read.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Brian Evenson, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Collapse of Horses\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eNot only is the level of erudition and inquiry evident in these stories supremely impressive, Adam McOmber\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es storytelling skills are also sublime. He mines the darker corners of the human psyche and presents us with one vivid and startling discovery after another; he likewise finds the secret beating hearts of his characters' desires, longings that would be equally at home in a Poe or an Angela Carter story. This is a breathtaking new collection of stories.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Christine Sneed, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Virginity of Famous Men\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortraits of a Few of the People I\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003eve Made Cry\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eLike the Wunderkammern of the 17th and 18th centuries—so named because they were supposed to evoke wonder, a state their assemblers felt precipitated all true knowledge—the cabinet of curiosity that is Adam McOmber\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy House Gathers Desires\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewill leave its readers in wonder, well on their way to discovering the nature of the relationship between doppelgängers, revenants, demons, and those haunted by them. It is an exquisite feeling, thrilling, terrifying and fascinating. I started reading the book again as soon as I had finished.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Gabriel Blackwell, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMadeleine E. \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Natural Dissolution of Fleeting-Improvised-Men\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eMy House Gathers Desires\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a flung-open vault of astonishments, a curation of the untamed and unimaginable made flesh. Adam McOmber’s astoundingly inventive fiction contains all the mischief and glee of a mad-scientist on holiday.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Brian Leung, author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTake Me Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stories in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy House Gathers Desires\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eare at once mythic and intimate, erudite and immediately relatable. I\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003em always impressed and delighted by the capaciousness of Adam McOmber\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003es imagination: how he brings the fine aesthetic attention of the antiquarian to every story he tells, and how he inevitably manages to frighten and satisfy in equal measure. If you believe (as I do) that scary stories are the best stories, then cozy up—you\u003cspan\u003e’\u003c\/span\u003ere about to meet your new favorite author.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Camille DeAngelis, author of the Alex Award-winning\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBones \u0026amp; All\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“An otherworldly collection of tales rich with mystery, suspense, and eroticism.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003eIn the mode of Shirley Jackson, A. S. Byatt, Kathryn Davis, and Kelly Link, McOmber has fashioned crisply rendered, richly informed and imagined, sorrowful, malevolently erotic, and archly funny campfire tales for grownups.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Booklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e[McOmber’s] pantry of interests is on full display, is in full \u003cem\u003eplay\u003c\/em\u003e, as he navigates gender and sexuality through the lens of dark dreams, science fiction, medical quackery, and fairy tales. The reader travels from a dark lake in the opening story to a collaboration of voices in the final story who dare us not to imagine sitting around a campfire to hear daring new possibilities of queer story telling.\u003cspan\u003e”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—Lambda Literary\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch6\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e© BOA Editions, Ltd. 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":33013257289,"sku":"9781942683414","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/MyHouseGathersDesires_CVR.jpg?v=1527683302","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/products\/my-house-gathers-desires","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}