Middle Spoon Sapphic Gisela is a water nymph

Gisela is a water nymph who dreams of returning to the living world and the family she left behind

when the word 'queer' was still an insult and when doctors and nurses invented their own names for the mysterious disease killing beautiful young men

until he meets the exceptionally handsome Osric

setting off a chain of stolen nights on the beach

Middle Spoon Sapphic Gisela is a water nymphBy: Alejandro Varela A whipsmart, blazingly funny novel about heartbreak, unconventional love, and the way society could be, from National Book Award finalist Alejandro Varela The narrator of Middle Spoon appears to be living the dream: He has a doting husband, two precocious children, all the comforts of a quiet bourgeois lifeand a sexy younger boyfriend to accompany him to farmers markets and cocktail parties. But when his boyfriend abruptly dumps