Jerome Klingemann, Loser Magnet

Second Edition: In this contemporary picaresque story oftentimes told with biting sarcasm and as an unforgiving commentary on LGBTQ society, the gay narrator is born to an undistinguished family in a small town in the Midwest. He moves to the big city to pursue a better life through higher education, in an environment more accepting of his sexual orientation. Along the way he experiences more emotional failures than triumphs, especially in his quest for a romantic relationship with a friend of the bosom—while searching in less lofty parts of the male anatomy. After all his labors, he becomes aware that a conquest can be laced with an unforeseen defeat.