Love / Aggression

By June Martin

A firecracker. June Martin bursts onto the scene with this surreal comic novel, a book with heart, soul, and viscera. Isaac Fellman, DEAD COLLECTIONS

Funny, vicious, poignant, and breathlessly intelligent, Love/Aggression is a dirty delight.

Gretchen Felker-Martin, MANHUNT and CUCKOO

The TFR's Best Debut Author of 2024

Lambda Finalist for Best Transgender Fiction 2025

Best friends Lily and Zoe fight, separate, reunite, and repeat, each time deepening the belief that the other is the source of their problems. Once Lily, a struggling tattoo apprentice, is exiled from their shared house, she bounces from an artist's fixer-upper, to a cult leader with a harem of subs, to a house shared with the goddess of transfemininity. Meanwhile, rising movie star Zoe becomes more cutthroat by the day in her relentless quest for fame. If Lily can't give up her desire for control, if Zoe can't lay aside her cruelty and ego, they'll never escape their intolerable places in the world. Traversing art, domination, sex, and shape-shifting houses, LOVE/AGGRESSION is a novel about the indignity of depending on other people, and the terrible cost of trying not to.

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