![]() ![]() The (male) narrator’s desire for Mitko is palpable, and their journey, which reads at time like more of a struggle, proceeds through uneasy exchanges of sex for money over several months. ![]() The narrator almost immediately introduces the reader to Mitko: part-hustler, part-crook, all enigma. The book opens with a cruising scene in a public toilet in Sofia, Bulgaria. As I framed it to Garth’s publicist, it might be interesting to think about the work in academic terms. As I told more and more friends about this new gay novel apparently making waves across the Atlantic, I thought I should probably get my hands on a copy to check it out for myself. ![]() It was covered in the Guardian, London Review of Books, and the New York Times, and discussed by queer theory enthusiasts at Queen Mary (so basically me, to several undergraduates trying to politely ignore me). Garth Greenwell and this beautiful bookcover suddenly seemed to be everywhere. But I had one of those experiences where once you’ve heard of someone o The review was almost hyperbolic in its breathless praise for the book, which piqued my interest, only to find it wasn’t yet available in the U.K. I first heard about Garth Greenwell and his new novel, What Belongs to You, via a pre-release review in a U.S. ![]()
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