Description
“Tenderly obsessive, fearlessly intimate, sweet like a best friend doodling on your sweaty summertime skin with a gel pen — FRAGMENTS OF WASTED DEVOTION is a book to underline in neon highlighters, send excerpts to crushes and mistakes, inhale like a fence full of honeysuckle.”
—MICHELLE TEA, author of Against Memoir, Valencia, and Black Wave
“Your world never ends how you think it will.”
In this dazzling debut collection, Mia Arias Tsang explores the complexity and torture of queer heartbreak with an urgency that will leave you breathless. Flash nonfiction, vignettes and personal narrative combine to tell the almost-love stories of her young adulthood. From dusty university libraries to Boston-bound BoltBuses, and the glittering skyscrapers of New York City to the smoggy shores of Venice Beach, FRAGMENTS OF WASTED DEVOTION spans seven years of failing, losing, and finding oneself in love. Featuring original illustrations by Georgia-based artist Levi Wells.
“FRAGMENTS OF WASTED DEVOTION is a prismatic ode to desire and self-betrayal. Mia Arias Tsang has written a book for the heartbroken, the rapturous, the lovers who never don’t love a little too much — she’s written a book for all of us. The perfect read for after that thing that you’re in, which you don’t really know what to call, finally comes to an end. Read this while you’re waiting for them to respond to your text.”
—ISLE MCELROY, author of People Collide