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Shirley Jackson nominated author Joe Koch’s Dead Boys Don't Cry is a queer cosmic-erotic slasher and anti-murder mystery about disaster gay Chris Fournier, who has one big problem: He can’t stop getting murdered.
On the outside he leads a charmed—yet closeted—life. On the inside, the ghosts keep piling up. During an epidemic of disappearances in his small town, Chris is the recurring victim in a series of surreal gay sex-murders happening in the back rooms, alleys, and outdoor liminal spaces where men meet in secret. Every time he dies, he returns to the puzzle of his impossible life, enduring in a world where everyone is guilty. Everyone has something to hide. Chris must resolve and embrace the mystery of his survival amongst the forgotten and disappeared, or risk remaining lost in an ongoing cycle of longing, revenge, and rebirth.
Told from multiple, shifting points of view in a narrative that defies linear time, this composite novel is for fans of Cruising, The Sluts, and Robbe-Grillet's The Erasers. Koch’s writing is fluid and artful, crafting a hallucinatory experience. An examination of memory, sex, and identity, Dead Boys Don’t Cry is a devastating ode to the inescapable power of queer desire.
Praise for Invaginies
"A thought-provoking collection that readers will experience physically, making it a great suggestion for those who like to mix their literary fiction with visceral, lush prose, recounting stories that captivate and discomfort in equal measure." —Booklist
"Joe Koch belongs in any conversation featuring the likes of Livia Llewellyn or Michael Cisco, but is incomparable. Dizzyingly inventive, and weird as weird gets, Invaginies will floor everybody." —Laird Barron, author of Not a Speck of Light (Stories)
"I'm awestruck by Joe Koch's nonstop spellbinding, almost paralyzingly inventive and yet propulsive, ultra-focused prose." —Dennis Cooper, author of The Marbled Swarm, I Wished, and The Sluts