Description:
"Seinfeld meets Sedaris in the Snapchat Age."
- Jill Dearman, The Great Bravura
Whether they're trembling before an invasive squirrel, giving the straight dope to an errant call-girl or enduring a #MeToo moment with a handsy waiter on their Roman honeymoon, Kyle and Julius are just the kind of gay married couple who didn't see the 2016 election coming.
In this variegated book of vignettes, flash scenes and personal essays, award-winning author Kyle Thomas Smith documents the peculiarities of life in his home, his borough, his chiropractor's office and these times.
Step into his Cockloft.
Brief description: Kyle Thomas Smith is the author of the multi-award-winning novel 85A. He lives in Brooklyn and San Francisco with his husband Julius and their cats, Giuseppe and Giacomo.
Review Quotes:
"Seinfeld meets Sedaris in the Snapchat Age."
----Jill Dearman, author, The Great Bravura
"85A is blessed with one of the most appealing and unique narrators...This is an exciting and sharply-written debut."
----Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven, Last Night in Montreal
" 85A is Kyle Thomas Smith's debut novel, which is exciting because of the quality of the work, but also because of the new voice that the literary world has gained in Smith."
----Chicago Tribune
"Seamus's treatment at the hands of his family and his teachers is heart-wrenching."
----Booklist
"Like Holden, [85A's protagonist] Seamus serves as an important reminder of the universal urge to self-define in a world hostile to anyone who dares to be different."
----Edge
"[Kyle Thomas Smith] does a marvelous job capturing the heart and soul of the dark underbelly of his hometown [Chicago] over the course of one long day in January 1989."
----This Week in New York