“Like the act of turning a crystal in sunlight, this sharp collection prismatically throws unexpected and beautiful angles, illuminating with grace the lives of queer characters grappling with grief, belonging, desire, a shifting sense of identity, and the ways we are transformed by love. Baumann contributes, with his own style and sensibility, to the larger conversation of what it means to be a queer person in the world today, when equality looks more complicated than abstract notions of capital-P Progress, because freedom has to do with our messy, unreliable, unrelenting hearts.” —Peter Kispert, author of I Know You Know Who I Am
