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Detroit, 1982. Theater student Jamie Goldberg has rebuilt his life after a destructive spiral of promiscuity and dangerous encounters. When he's cast as Horatio in his university's production of Hamlet, it should be a triumph-until he discovers he'll be sharing the stage with Ben, the schoolmate who tormented him for being gay.Desperate to avoid confronting his authentic self, Jamie throws himself into contradictory identities: campus activist clashing with his progressive mother who can't accept her gay son, then conservative bank employee alienating his liberal friends. Each role feels like another performance, another escape from truths he finds "profoundly unacceptable." But the shadows of his teenage sexual assault follow everywhere, warping his understanding of desire and intimacy. In early 1980s Detroit, where LGBTQ+ community exists in "dark, loud, and seedy bars," Jamie struggles to distinguish authentic connection from self-destructive patterns. As Hamlet rehearsals intensify, parallels between Jamie's evasions and the Danish prince's torment become undeniable. Like Hamlet confronting his father's ghost, Jamie faces the specter of his true self-complete with desires and needs he's been taught to despise. When Jamie's carefully constructed identities collapse, he confronts the ultimate question: How do you accept parts of yourself the world has taught you to reject? And how do you separate trauma from authentic desire when every community-family, school, even LGBTQ+ spaces-has expectations about who you should be? Set against mysterious illness beginning to claim lives in shadows, Slings and Arrows explores the exhausting work of constant reinvention and courage required to stop running from yourself. This unflinching examination of how trauma shapes identity and communities both liberate and constrain reveals the difference between performing identity and living it. As Jamie's worlds collide in Shakespeare's most psychologically complex play, the stage meant to save him becomes where he finally stops acting and starts being-whatever the cost. Kirkus Reviews calls it "an excellent coming-of-age novel with an indelible lead," praising "humorous, approachable prose" while noting "readers will no doubt see something of their own young selves" in Jamie's struggle. Slings and Arrows powerfully concludes The Goldberg Variations trilogy-about choosing authenticity over approval and the profound courage self-acceptance requires.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781734295788
  • Publisher: Arnoland Press, LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Arnoland Press, LLC
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 358
  • Weight: 421 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1734295783
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jul 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Width: 133 mm


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