'Sexy funny genre-bending . . . a radical book' Elle It's 1993 and Paul Polydoris tends bar
at the only gay club in a university town thrumming with politics and partying. But Paul's also
got a secret: he's a shapeshifter. Paul transforms his body at will from male to female in a
desiring and sometimes tragic search for belonging that travels across the US from Iowa City
to San Francisco. Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl is a riotous razor-sharp queer
bildungsroman whose hero ine winds his way through a world gutted by loss in the wake of AIDS
pulsing with music and opening into an array of intimate connections. Andrea Lawlor has
written one of the most groundbreaking debut novels of recent years an instant cult classic.
'I love this book in all its ecstasy wit and hilarity . . . Paul is on fire and an antihero
for the ages' Maggie Nelson 'Riotous gleeful and wonderful from start to finish. I adored it
and dare anyone else not to' Sophie Mackintosh
