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"Hurt Capital" explores the life of the narrator, Isaac, as he prowls the streets of New Delhi as a child and learns how to drink in Moscow, Russia as a teenager. Written in the format of a first person letter to his mother, "Hurt Capital" speaks of Isaac's ravaging bipolar disorder. "Hurt Capital", indeed, denotes a place of hurt: one that is a "curated kind of hell...a dungeon in Berlin where hipsters get raped and benzoed to death...swords on the skin, razor blades to the wrist, blades on the back of a shoulder." Isaac feels that he lives in Hurt Capital because he is bipolar and also a transgender man.…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
"Hurt Capital" explores the life of the narrator, Isaac, as he prowls the streets of New Delhi as a child and learns how to drink in Moscow, Russia as a teenager. Written in the format of a first person letter to his mother, "Hurt Capital" speaks of Isaac's ravaging bipolar disorder. "Hurt Capital", indeed, denotes a place of hurt: one that is a "curated kind of hell...a dungeon in Berlin where hipsters get raped and benzoed to death...swords on the skin, razor blades to the wrist, blades on the back of a shoulder." Isaac feels that he lives in Hurt Capital because he is bipolar and also a transgender man.
Autorenporträt
Isaac Amend is a Washington D.C.-based journalist. As a Yale alumni, he was a prominent columnist for the Yale Daily News, and now writes for the Washington Blade. A transgender man and identical twin, he spent most of his childhood living overseas in South Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. Isaac cherishes all sorts of writing, ranging from poetry to creative nonfiction and first-person fiction.