{"product_id":"9781552454732","title":"Daddy Lessons","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eCowboy erotica meets Kathy Acker in this smart, raunchy look at a queer sexual awakening\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart memoir, part literary study, part formalist exercise in excitement, \u003ci\u003eDaddy Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e is a transgressive text of pleasure, bodies, the Lord, and the West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn this post-gender, post-sexuality, queer prairie Decameron, Steacy Easton’s sexual anxiety becomes textual anxiety. This is a messy history of Mormon missionaries, bathhouses, Anglican boarding schools, the back rooms of prairie bars, Montreal classrooms, and the many religious spaces that have tried to snuff out queer desire while turning a blind eye to abuse. These are provocative tales to turn on, offend, and sentimentalize. Easton explores the seminal texts of their sexuality, from Frank O’Hara to Neil LaBute, Kip Moore to Lorelei James, and delves into their own encounters as they came of age. These daddy lessons are blunt about the ambivalences of trauma and the pleasures of disobedience, slippery and difficult, reveling in the funk of memory and desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDaddy Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e is a cocky and tender reclamation of childhood and teenage wanting. As a fellow prairie queer, I felt exposed and liberated by Easton’s pornography in unexpected and titillating ways.\" – \u003cb\u003eVivek Shraya, author of \u003ci\u003eI’m Afraid of Men\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePeople Change\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\"Steacy writes about the queer pleasure-seeking body in ways both fresh and eminently familiar. What is a young faggot to do with such feral and ungovernable desires? Read, of course! And fuck. \u003ci\u003eDaddy Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e feels like doing the best of both at once.\" – \u003cb\u003eJordan Tannahill, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Listeners\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steacy Easton (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Coach House Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-10-24","offer_id":44230047695103,"sku":"9781552454732","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_28d0c8ac-690c-4ada-a8bf-2fc47a1131e3.jpg?v=1692992835","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781552454732","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}