The Gesture That Fit - Taylor, Linton Q.
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Thirteen-year-old Jacob Hayles has spent his life performing-the smiles, the mannerisms, the violence - anything to endure the gritty streets of Philadelphia. To those around him, he's confident, he's cool, he's normal; but more than anything, he's a man. Yet beneath this carefully crafted persona, there's a truth he doesn't dare to acknowledge, even as he fights to keep it buried. When his friends challenge him to lose his virginity, Jacob must prove his manhood or have his reality unravel. As the pressure mounts, he finds refuge in Xavier, the class "weirdo," and although their fateful…mehr

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Thirteen-year-old Jacob Hayles has spent his life performing-the smiles, the mannerisms, the violence - anything to endure the gritty streets of Philadelphia. To those around him, he's confident, he's cool, he's normal; but more than anything, he's a man. Yet beneath this carefully crafted persona, there's a truth he doesn't dare to acknowledge, even as he fights to keep it buried. When his friends challenge him to lose his virginity, Jacob must prove his manhood or have his reality unravel. As the pressure mounts, he finds refuge in Xavier, the class "weirdo," and although their fateful relationship inspires hope, it threatens to upend the life he has built-to unearth the Dead. With his world teetering on the verge of collapse, Jacob will have to answer the question: is happiness possible without truth or does burying the Dead mean burying himself too? A heartrending coming-of-age novel, The Gesture That Fit portrays identity, community, and the disturbing concessions we make to belong. Devastating, yet longingly tender, Linton Taylor's literary debut shines a light on the shadowed intimacy between Black boys and their denied boyhood.
Autorenporträt
Linton Taylor is a Chicago-based writer and debut novelist who fell in love with storytelling at a young age, penning his first short story in seventh grade. In college, he experimented with short vignettes, but it was a senior-year fiction writing course that sparked the idea for The Gesture That Fit. Born and raised in West Philadelphia, Taylor draws on personal reflections about identity, queerness, and the survival strategies learned in childhood to craft intimate, unflinching narratives exploring belonging and masculinity.