Lote
Book description
WINNER of the James Tait Black Prize 2021.
WINNER of The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021.
Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinhold's decadent queer literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics and beauty, while interrogating the removal and obscurement of Black figures from history.
Solitary…
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1 author picked Lote as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Why does the past speak to us? What do the 1920s – those decadent years of jazz and cocktails and sex – have to offer the 2020s?
When I was writing my book, I was obsessed with the interwar decades – Sayers’ Golden Age of Crime – and with the detective-like quality of my own work, as I chased scraps of information about my subjects’ lives in scattered archives.
In Lote, we meet Mathilda, who has what she calls Transfixions: fragments of the past, especially the Black queer past, that mesmerize and absorb her. Mathilda’s quest for contact with…
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