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Rent Boy by Gary Indiana
5.0
challenging dark reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Needed a five-star read in my life and Rent Boy & McNallys pulled through!

A recently reprinted, gritty novella from the 90s about male sex work, nightlife in New York City, and grandiose musings of sex, the body, work, connection.

Danny is a gay sex worker in his 20s who works as a waiter at a hip bar frequented by the art scene elite, hangs around with his fellow rent boys, and winds up in a scam with his achingly beautiful friend Chip.

"What are they smiling at? The fact that they know there will always be a museum of perfect boy bodies to worship at, and any item can be had for less than two hundred dollars an hour."