Perverts: Stories by Mac (Marisa) Crane

Description

Who gets to decide what’s normal?

In Perverts, acclaimed author Mac Crane delivers seventeen bold and inventive stories that examine the fragile line between desire and shame, intimacy and performance, belonging and isolation. With razor-sharp wit and fearless imagination, these stories inhabit the lives of characters who exist just outside society’s expectations, revealing that those pushed to the margins often understand the world most clearly.

A worker at a disturbing attraction where wealthy clients pay to reenact acts of hate prepares to meet their girlfriend’s family. A therapist and client spiral into a dangerously blurred relationship. A quiet employee at a seaside theme park built around manufactured fantasy finds herself falling in love. Elsewhere, internet fame, obsession, loneliness, performance, and power collide in increasingly strange and emotionally charged ways.

Whether grounded in unsettling realism or edged with surreal satire, each story explores the roles people perform for love, acceptance, survival, and self-expression. Crane’s characters navigate queer relationships, complicated identities, and impossible situations with equal measures of vulnerability, defiance, humor, and heartbreak.

Blending literary fiction with biting social commentary, absurdist humor, and emotional honesty, Perverts challenges assumptions about respectability, desire, and who gets labeled an outsider. The result is a provocative, compassionate collection that is as unsettling as it is deeply human.

Inventive, fearless, and impossible to categorize, Perverts is an extraordinary collection for readers who appreciate contemporary literary fiction that embraces the strange, the uncomfortable, and the beautifully unconventional.

Book Details

• Author: Mac (Marisa) Crane
• ISBN: 9780593733677
• Format: Hardcover
• Genre: Literary Fiction, Short Stories, LGBTQ+ Fiction
• Themes: Queer Identity, Desire, Shame, Relationships, Social Satire, Identity, Modern Life