The Goth House Experiment, SJ Sindu
The Goth House Experiment, SJ Sindu
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The Goth House Experiment
And Other Stories

Author: SJ Sindu

Narrator: Varun Sathi, SJ Sindu

Unabridged: 3 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 10/17/2023


Synopsis

An uncanny and electric story collection from SJ Sindu, Lambda Literary finalist and Publishing Triangle Edmund White Debut Fiction Award–winning author of Blue-Skinned Gods

In “Dark Academia and the Lesbian Masterdoc,” a millennial English professor finds viral fame on TikTok, but her newfound notoriety could wreck her already unstable life. In “Patriots’ Day,” a man having an affair finds himself caught up in larger currents of anti-Asian violence.
Throughout the collection, an array of loners and artists—a young poet haunted by the ghost of Oscar Wilde, a home brewer and wife during lockdown, a boy with wings—struggle for connection and fulfillment in a world battered by the pandemic and reactionary politics. A daring
writer with limitless range, SJ Sindu can depict shocking cruelty as readily as small moments of queer joy. The Goth House Experiment isa startling and very funny collection by one of America’s most exciting young voices.

About SJ Sindu

SJ Sindu's debut novel, Marriage of a Thousand Lies, is forthcoming in 2017 from Soho Press. Her hybrid fiction and nonfiction chapbook, I Once Met You But You Were Dead, was the winner of the Split Lip Turnbuckle Chapbook Contest. Sindu's creative writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Brevity, the Normal School, the Los Angeles Review of Books, apt, Vinyl Poetry, PRISM International, VIDA, rkvry quarterly, and elsewhere.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily on December 20, 2023

A unique collection of stories on navigating creative, emotional, sexual, and political landscapes. Timely, vibrant, and expertly written, each story glows with its own personality, exploring self discovery, queer joy, internal crisis, and creative breakthroughs. It accounts for the blending between......more

Goodreads review by Mia on November 04, 2023

2.5 stars This was a very fast read; all of the stories were short and quick-paced. I enjoyed reading most of them, but not a single one stood out as particularly engaging or impactful. In fact, several of them, while interesting, also centered around a dysfunctional couple. There was a man who's chea......more

Goodreads review by Ronak on March 31, 2024

Without a doubt the best thing I’ve read in a long, long time. Stunning.......more

Goodreads review by Hannah-Renea on January 19, 2024

As an overall work, I think The Goth House Experiment falls flat. It feels like two collections smashed haphazardly together, and I liked one collection far more than the other. I think Sindu is at their strongest with the speculative stories. The penultimate story "The Goth House Experiment" was a g......more

Goodreads review by Gayatri Sethi on August 18, 2023

Poignant & sharp storytelling, unlike any I’ve read before. Readers might need to suspend expend expectations based on the author’s previous exceptional books before embarking on this reading journey. Each story is distinct & a few of them left me entirely awe struck or bereft. Isn’t a story collectio......more