SHIFTING PAGES
In Andrea Lawlor’s novel, Paul Takes the Form of a, the protagonist fucks his way through New York City; Provincetown, Mass.; the Midwest; and San Francisco—while shape-shifting through “all the genders” and sexualities, morphing his body into whatever physical representation magnetically draws the needle of whomever he wants to attract in the moment. At times, Paul becomes a boy, a girl, both. For him, gender, sexual orientation, and even physical sexual characteristics are malleable and can be changed on a (sexual) whim.
