Just Pervs, Jess Taylor
Just Pervs, Jess Taylor
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Just Pervs

Author: Jess Taylor

Narrator: Katharine King So

Unabridged: 5 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Book*hug Press

Published: 07/30/2021

Synopsis

Finalist for the 2020 Lambda Literary Awards, Bisexual Fiction Category. Two sex addicts meet and fall in love. A woman catches her husband cheating on her with their dog and escapes to her sister's horse farm. Four friends—fellow pervs—grow up and drift apart, pining for each other in silence until one of them is murdered. In Jess Taylor's sophomore story collection, contemporary views of female sexuality are subverted, and women are given agency over their desires and bodies. Through these characters, sex is revealed to be many things at once: gross, shameful, exhilarating, hidden or open—and always complicated. Reminiscent of the works of Maggie Nelson, Mary Gaitskill and Chris Kraus, the stories in Just Pervs explore the strange oppression and illumination created by desire, the bewilderment of adolescence, and the barriers to intimacy both discovered within and imposed upon ourselves.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Barbara on June 08, 2020

It’s about sex. From the pov of women. Lots of sex in an infinite variety of ways and means. Very hip writing. Short stories. I’m beginning to think short stories are best for this year, at least for the pleasure of reading. My mind is so taken up with witches and demons. Like the fumes that fill th......more

Goodreads review by Blair on April 11, 2020

Read it on recommendation from our eLibrary. I enjoyed these stories, and despite some reviews here that felt they were overly sexualized, I felt that most of the stories were trying to be in depth looks at relationships and sexuality. If anything, I felt the stories were too short - like they were......more

Goodreads review by Jessica on September 16, 2019

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Goodreads review by Hannah on February 25, 2020

These stories in Just Pervs by Jess Taylor are tender and complex—these characters are a little lonesome, but there's also a layer of funny that just doesn't quit.......more

Goodreads review by Juniper on August 29, 2021

Just Pervs is a collection of short stories brought to us by Jess Taylor, who gave readers The critically acclaimed Pauls back in 2015. Through her characters we see an examination of female sexuality and the subversion of its contemporary views. Their points of view take the romanticism out of thin......more

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