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Augie Schoenberg is twenty-two, an
aspiring filmmaker at a school without a film school, and desperately
single. He's just moved into the Harley Hutt, the wildest party house on
campus, and has fallen hard for his roommate Victor Radhakrishna, a
campus political activist who, for Augie, is "a practical demi-god: a
crusader for justice in skateboarding shoes." The problem is, Augie is
the only gay one in the house - or so he thinks. Set in a raucous
Midwestern college town, The Unborn Spouse Situation is a darkly comic
novel of sex, betrayal, and cultural clashes. Augie's search for love
takes him from the cornfields of Illinois, to the gay beach and
underground clubs of Chicago, and finally to the ecstasy-fueled
nightlife of London, where Victor's secret threatens to keep the two
apart forever. In this relationship, and in two more doomed romances -
one with a deeply closeted Mexican-American frat boy, and the other with
a Cuban pro-baseball player - Augie finds that the deceptively free
Midwestern environment holds more challenges to these relationships than
even he might've thought. The Unborn Spouse Situation is the debut novel
from controversial Chicago author Matt Rauscher, who deftly combines
such divisive issues as arranged marriage and gay rights, and sets it
all in a town called Normal, Illinois. The Unborn Spouse Situation is
sure to be considered the most sexual book of the year, and one of the
smartest. Written in a raucous, voyeuristic style, Augie's story won't
disappoint readers looking for a wild, sexy ride. |