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1468306952 epub In shimmering prose that weaves among intimate confessions, deadpan asides, and piercing observations on the fear and turmoil that defined the long decade after 9/11, Clifford Chase tells the stories that have shaped his adulthood. There are his aging parents, whose disagreements sharpen as their health declines and his beloved brother, lost tragically to AIDS and his long-term boyfriendalways present, but always kept at a distance. There is also the revelatory, joyful music of the B-52s, Chases sexual confusion in his twenties, and more recently, the mysterious appearance in his luggage of weird objects from Iran the year his mother died. In the midst of all this is Chases singular voiceincisive, wry, confiding, by turns cool or emotional, always engaging. The way this book is writtenin pitch-perfect fragmentsis crucial to Chases deeper message: that we experience and remember in short bursts of insight, terror, comedy, and love. As ambitious in its form as it is in its radical candor, The Tooth Fairy is the rare memoir that can truly claim to rethink the genre. Read more