{"id":609,"date":"2011-12-20T10:14:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/?p=609"},"modified":"2011-12-20T10:14:49","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:14:49","slug":"krakow-melt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/krakow-melt\/","title":{"rendered":"Krakow Melt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Find this book in a library near you.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/601122837\" target=\"_blank\">Cox, Daniel Allen. <em>Krakow Melt. <\/em>Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010. Paperback. 151p. $15.95. ISBN: 978-1-55152-372-9.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0pt none; float: left; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-610\" title=\"Cover for Krakow Melt\" src=\"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Krakow-Melt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"232\" \/>Nominated for several awards, <em>Krakow Melt<\/em> is a book that readers will either love or hate for a variety of reasons: pyromania; homophobia; art; Pope John Paul II hovering near death; brief chapters with headings that are not always descriptive or representative of the content within; writing that is provocative, expressive, and at times insulting.<\/p>\n<p>Set in Krakow (Poland) in 2005, the main characters grapple with homosexuality and fitting in, just as Poland is struggling to fit into the European Union. Radek, a bisexual artist and pyromaniac, meets Dorota, a literature student and, herself, a budding pyromaniac. Together they find love and a sense of belonging, while fighting religion, government, and the LGBT community to which they do not feel a sense of belonging \u2013 all while dealing with rage and sexual curiosity and exploration.<\/p>\n<p><em>Krakow Melt<\/em>\u2019s language will draw pictures in readers\u2019 minds, both vivid and beautiful, yet also painful and hurtful. This book does not offer easy reading, but it is a work that will meet the high literary mind\u2019s standards.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Reviewed by, <strong>[s.n.]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cox, Daniel Allen. Krakow Melt. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2010. Paperback. 151p. $15.95. ISBN: 978-1-55152-372-9. Nominated for several awards, Krakow Melt is a book that readers will either love or hate for a variety of reasons: pyromania; homophobia; art; Pope John Paul II hovering near death; brief chapters with headings that are not always descriptive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}