News from Another
In NYC, Emanuel Xavier announces:
Available now on Amazon.com. Official release date, June 1, 2009.
CHRIST LIKE : TENTH ANNIVERSARY REVISED EDITION
a novel by Emanuel Xavier
Rebel Satori Press, 978-0979083853, $16.95
Available now on Amazon.com. Official release date, June 1, 2009.
About Christ Like:
Mikey
is a spirited but self-destructive survivor of sexual abuse, a gay
Latino native New Yorker caught somewhere between Catholic guilt and
club kid decadence looking to fit in as part of a family. Instead,
Mikey delves into a demimonde of petty thieves, prostitutes, and
pushers. Haunted by a father that Mikey has never met, a difficult
childhood, recurring nightmares, the reality of death, and Christ, the
story unfolds through the ‘80’s and ‘90’s following him on his journey
through a fascinating world filled with Santeros, transsexuals and
voguing queens.
Praise for Christ Like:
“Christ Like is the harrowing first novel by Emanuel Xavier. When it was first published ten years ago, it announced the arrival of a unique and important new voice among both gay and Latino/a writers. Ten years later, the novel retains its compelling power as it takes the reader on a jagged journey though the New York club scene; in theme and naked urgency, it may be justly compared to Dancer from the Dance and Last Exit to Brooklyn, but its heartbeat is puro latino.”
-Michael Nava, author of The Little Death and Rag and Bone
"The emotional honesty of Emanuel Xavier’s writing grabs and holds you like a vice. For
more than a decade, Xavier has been an essential voice for an urban,
queer aesthetic that has much to teach the world about creativity,
resilience, and unflinching love. In re-issuing this rare work, he has given us all a gift.”
-Kai Wright, author of Drifting Toward love
“An open hearted novel from the soul of New York City . From the Valencia Bakery to Club Escuelita, a first generation American is forced to the edge by other people's prejudices. There he finds love, hate, pleasure, and danger with a wide array of men whose lives are never recorded in American literature. This
novel will not come out of an MFA program or be optioned for HBO
because of the censorship of experience in our current arts and
entertainment industry. But its story of people valued, thrown-away, losing, and surviving is central to understanding who we are and where we live. All of us.”
-Sarah Schulman
About Emanuel Xavier:
Emanuel Xavier is the author of the poetry collection Americano, editor of Bullets & Butterflies: queer spoken word poetry, and Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry, and his work has appeared in the James White Review, Genre and Best Gay Erotica. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, he lives in Bushwick and continues to work as a spoken word poet.
" . . . our angels have wings too"
-emanuel xavier, www.emanuelxavier.com
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