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| Torres’s book is set in a desiccating mansion in a nameless border town. Photograph: Merche Portu |
Blackouts by Justin Torres review – a queer-gothic dreamworld
A marginalised history is salvaged from real‑life medical records in this strange and glorious novel
Beejay Silcox
Thursday 9 November 2023
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f you locked Shirley Jackson and David Wojnarowicz in a room together, they might invent the kind of mouldering dreamworld that Justin Torres conjures in his new novel, Blackouts: a queer‑gothic version of the Hotel California.
