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"What thoughts keep him company, alone at his desk? How is he sufficient to himself?"

"How is anyone to do anything if the gap between an idea and its realisation, a thought and its expression, should be a chasm?"

Serving anxious, awkward queer kid realness 3.5/5

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April 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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New interview with writer Michael Amherst in the BAY AREA REPORTER. #theboyhoodofcain

www.ebar.com/story/153654...
Michael Amherst's debut novel, 'The Boyhood of Cain'
In just under 200 pages, debut author Michael Amherst takes us through a gay teenager's "tender, brutal, and enthralling" journey like a seasoned guide.
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March 25, 2025 at 12:31 AM
gemabbott.bsky.social
Book 28/? - The Boyhood of Cain by Michael Amherst

I listened to this across one long, jet-lagged day. It was everything the reviews acclaim - evocative, beautiful, searing. I found the protagonist frustrating, ridiculous, sometimes unbearably sweet

Highly recommended

#BookSky #TheBoyhoodOfCain
Screenshot of the audiobook cover. It is a cream square, with a small photo in the centre - the photo is of a small child in shadow, wearing a backpack, looking across a misty meadow at a building. The sun is low and golden, the sky changes from pale yellow to anaemic blue.
February 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
ajsefton.bsky.social
Oh dear...#TheBoyhoodOfCain not what I wrote eek!
February 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM