I'm not sure I should be reading this. First person point-of-view, transgender, America-bashing. Maybe I ought to recommend it to a few more-adventurous-than-me friends to see what they make of it first....

Does this sound like something in which I can interest you?

"IMMIGRATION AT JFK is a time consuming and bothersome affair. The staff wear frowns and guns. The queue I'm in shuffles along at a slow pace, slow enough for everyone to have read their immigration obligatio More...

AMERICAN BLOW JOB is about Luiz, a young, blue-eyed, British boy in 1984 with a working visa, a set of chef’s knives, and an Irish uncle who lives in Connecticut. All this affords him, our main character, the self-professed alien boy (although he might as well be an anthropology student on an extended field mission) to live for some time in America where he discovers, among many other things, the simplicities, the complexities, the oddities, and, above all else, the utter and often brutal schizo More...

bloody brilliant