Things To Do When You're Goth in the Country

Things To Do When You're Goth in the Country by Chavisa Woods (2017) 221 pages

This book is comprised of eight thought-provoking short stories that often center on young gay and transsexual persons, usually in a rural setting. One, called A New Mohawk, is told by a transman who has discovered that his mohawk has become a miniature replica of a wall between Israel and Palestine. He can hear the rockets going between the territories, and whenever a person is mortally wounded by the fighting, the tiny being falls off his head onto the floor and dies. Heady stuff, indeed. Some other stories have similar kinds of magical happenings. In others, drugs might fuel the weirdness.