What Belongs to You is a fine novel, imbued with Greenwell’s rare gift for matching languorous, perceptive prose - or, rather, prose that captures the minutiae of perception and the fault lines of our knowledge of self and others - with a story that remains engaging from start to finish. In that first novel, Greenwell explored the dense complexity of power, shame, and desire in the relationship between an American expat teaching in Sofia, Bulgaria, and the street tough to whom he becomes increasingly, inconveniently attached after their first meet in the bathrooms beneath the National Palace of Culture in the capital city. THE MOST HOTLY ANTICIPATED queer title of the new decade (though it is only January, dear), Garth Greenwell’s Cleanness offers a familiarly impressive follow-up to his widely acclaimed 2016 debut novel, What Belongs to You.
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