Vera

The Don Quixote (in sound bytes) of a pansexual search for meaning in the sometimes absurd and often confounding landscape of modern love, Vera is a trans-genre picaresque-romance-mystery novel that ​chronicles the sometimes comic, sometimes kinky exploits of a poet-cum-detective in search of her Russian lover who has mysteriously disappeared. Or at least that’s how the novel begins, until the narrator discovers it really is a very different, and much more complex, journey she is on. In dreamlike pursuit of the elusive Vera (which means truth or faith in Russian), the narrator finds and loses herself in a world stuck somewhere between AIDS and 9/11—San Francisco in the 1990s—only to discover what it is she is really looking for. Read more