It is a book meant to be answerless and a temperate tangle but the impressions left unearth sensation and possibility through embracing femininity and altering -craft-wise and desire wise-where a climax can be. Told in vignettes, the narratives pivot around the only named character: Young Ae, a Korean born ballet dancer and kaleidoscopes through her straight, though gay-cruising, Korean American husband his hook up her hook up a flirtation a dog a child. This novella, the third work of fiction by Joon Oluchi Lee is a hot read of the mundane as characters encounter one another in details glowing under blacklight. Neotenica trolls desire like a twitter thread but it reads with far more presence and vulnerability. Joon Oluchi Lee Talks Power, Pleasure, and His New Book Neotenica
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