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Foreign Affairs: Male Tales of Lust & Love

Nominated for a 2020 Lambda Literary Award
Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Short Story Collections of 2020

In this newest story collection from award-winning writer Daniel M. Jaffe, red-blooded American men make mischief while vacationing abroad. They encounter a serial killer in a Munich bathhouse, a gay Holocaust ghost in Prague, a shape-shifting seductress in Mexico City, a desperate prostitute in Seville, a closeted Catholic school administrator in Dublin, and many others. These stories will transport, titillate, intrigue, and tug at your heartstrings.

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“Jaffe’s lively limpid prose features sharply etched characters and passages that shift between absurdist humor…sly social observation…and wry sensuality. The result is a redolent blend of atmospheric travelogue, earthy physicality, satire, magical realism, and Kafkaesque disorientation…. Rich, complex, entertaining tales of strangers in strange lands.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“As a travel writer, Jaffe introduces his destinations as one would a friend, with intimacies known only to a close acquaintance.… His characters are imbued with wit, warmth, and whimsy, and despite some of their sexual proclivities, they are all human and relatable….A fine writer, Jaffe has a command of language and the difficult medium of the short story.…Though some might consider the stories bold in subject matter, Foreign Affairs: Male Tales of Lust & Love is an insightful collection of finely crafted stories.” —San Francisco Book Review

“[S]urprising, refreshing, and thought-provoking…. Mr. Jaffe’s tales, both sexual and sexless, have broad appeal to readers occupying places up and down the Kinsey scale…. Kudos to Mr. Jaffe.” —Rainbow Book Reviews

“After reading this collection, I have to confess that I enjoyed reading all of the stories herein, even the ones that were horror (“In the Colony,” “The Return,” “Walpurgisnacht”) or lacked a fantastical element (“Innocence Abroad,” “The Trickster,” “El Bochorno”). Whatever your pleasure—be it erotic delight, absurdist humor, a bit of otherworldly magic, or simply the vicarious thrill of the armchair traveler—I can guarantee that you will find something to enjoy in this travelogue, like as not, several somethings.” —Out in Print: Queer Book Reviews

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