The Gift

By Barbara Browning

Subjects: Performance artists, Musicians, fiction, Lambda Literary Awards, Lambda Literary Award Winner, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Artists, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Long-distance relationships, LGBTQ novels

Description: In the midst of Occupy, Barbara Andersen begins spamming people indiscriminately with ukulele covers of sentimental songs. A series of inappropriate intimacies ensues, including an erotically charged correspondence and then collaboration with an extraordinarily gifted and troubled musician living in Germany.