Lansky's first novel, Broken People, was published by Hanover Square Press in Personal life. As of , Lansky lives in Los Angeles. Books. The Gilded Razor (Gallery Books, ) Broken People (Hanover Square Press, ) References Footnotes. Sam Lansky is a gifted writer and Broken People was intensely relatable, complex, insightful and often times, funny. The central focus is on how a person's sense of self is mediated (rightly or wrongly) through memory and how this affects the care we show ourselves. It's a gripping read that offers you multiple points for self-reflection/5(). · With his debut novel, Broken People, Lansky proves himself a talented writer of fiction unsparingly honest, but also funny and mordant, willing to use his life and what he does to his body to comment on issues larger than himself To anyone who thought Obergefell www.doorway.run description: First Time Trade.
Hodges (the Supreme Court decision that affirmed same-sex marriage as a constitutional right) put an end to gay shame in America, Broken People provides a contradictory vision. We need more books like Lansky's, ones that investigate why political progress doesn't always translate to self-acceptance for queer people. Broken People Sam Lansky. Hanover Square, $ (p) ISBN Buy this book. Lansky follows his addiction memoir The Gilded. Sam Lansky can write. In this slightly fictionalized account of his own late 20's malaise, a depressive but incredibly successful gay journalist named Sam attends a weekend wellness retreat in Portland. Formally, this novel is the type where very little plot happens, and the real focus is on character and memory.
Don’t underestimate Broken People: it may be full of delightful, razor-edged cultural commentary, but so too is it a journey of the soul. Too vulnerable to be blithely satirical and too self-aware to serve or fall for easy platitudes, Sam Lansky’s debut novel sends up LA’s consumerist wellness obsession while exploring the nature of health, acceptance, and human connection. In Sam Lansky's new novel "Broken People," the main character says yes - yes to self-help, to New Age meditation and yes to a possibly shady shaman for hire. The yes leads him on a winding, funny. Sam Lansky's new novel Broken People, about a gay man who's lured by a shaman's promise to fix [+] everything wrong with him in three days, was originally conceived of as a memoir. Hanover.
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