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Domestic Affairs: Tales of American Males
Daniel M. Jaffe
“Readers will be in awe of Daniel M. Jaffe’s collection of boundary-breaking and strangely intriguing short stories…. brilliant … sensual and hilarious queer stories … challenging conventional beliefs.”
—Foluso Falaye, Los Angeles Book Reviews
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Men Who Will Entice, Astound & Amaze You!
In this newest collection of short stories from award-winning writer Daniel M. Jaffe, red-blooded American men make mischief while exploring themselves and others throughout the United States. These men grow exhausted fulfilling heaven’s anointment as a West Hollywood sex angel, endure medical sacrifice in Minneapolis while saving gay men from global extinction, encounter joy at the moment of Palm Springs transcendence to the afterlife, discover unexpected romance with someone of ambiguous gender in Chicago, revel in the laid-back sexual camaraderie of South Florida’s older gay community, struggle to cease vanishing into thin air whenever spotting their beloved on Harvard’s campus, fall in love with a magical Texarkana circus masturbator, and worry about the mental health of an aging Brooklyn husband. These tales of fantasy, sci-fi, horror, romance, and good old-fashioned realism evoke deep pride in the varied wonders of being an American male.
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About the Author
Daniel M. Jaffe is a prize-winning writer whose short stories and personal essays have appeared in dozens of anthologies, newspapers, and literary journals in over half a dozen countries. Daniel compiled and edited With Signs and Wonders: An International Anthology of Jewish Fabulist Fiction and translated Here Comes the Messiah!, a Russian-Israeli best-seller by Dina Rubina. Kirkus Reviews selected Daniel’s Foreign Affairs: Male Tales of Lust & Love as one of the Best Indie Books of 2020 and one of the Best Indie Short Story Collections of 2020. Daniel also wrote the collections, Jewish Gentle and Other Stories of Gay-Jewish Living and Domestic Affairs: Tales of American Males. He is the author of the novel-in-stories, The Genealogy of Understanding and the novels, Yeled Tov, The Limits of Pleasure, and The Grand Sex Tour Murders, which Out in Print: Queer Book Reviews, chose as one of their 10 Favorite Books of 2022. Daniel has been profiled in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature and is a recipient of a Norman Mailer Writers Colony residency. He holds degrees from Princeton University (A.B.), Harvard Law School (J.D.), and Vermont College (M.F.A.). Read more at www.DanielJaffe.com.
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Praise for Domestic Affairs: Tales of American Males
“Readers will be in awe of Daniel M. Jaffe’s collection of boundary-breaking and strangely intriguing short stories…. brilliant … sensual and hilarious queer stories … challenging conventional beliefs.”
“These are entertaining stories … addressing issues of queer aging, community, and the hilarious societal responsibilities of being a ‘sex angel.’ Jaffe’s tales will appeal to a broad audience and keep readers rapt throughout. A volume of fun, absorbing, and contemplative tales.”
“Challenging and exquisite,… Daniel M. Jaffe’s charming short-story collection Domestic Affairs depicts tender and erotic relationships between men across a variety of locales. With wit and warmth, Jaffe pulls off daring and playful experiments with form and genre…. [T]he book boasts exquisite prose leading to surprises and moments of devastation.“