When Jupiter’s Aligned with Mars

“Bill Brown is one of those rare writers whose prose is forceful, yet marked with flair and finesse….He is as comfortable writing about blooming-yet hushed-homosexuality in 1950s Ottawa as he is writing about a predatory present day relationship between and man and his younger Thai boy-toy as he is about an abused woman who in adulthood turns the tables on her negligent, corrosive mother…Bill does not sugar coat anything in this book.  Your guts will occasionally roil; your blood will perhaps simmer to a boil when Bill shows you flashes of violence and torpid naked lust….(he) is a writer with the balls to deliver.”  -Matthew Firth (author of Suburban Pornography)