CHRIST LIKE : TENTH ANNIVERSARY REVISED EDITION

a novel by Emanuel Xavier

Rebel Satori Press, 978-0979083853, $16.95 

OFFICIALLY RELEASED JUNE 1,2009

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About Christ Like:

Mikey is a spirited but self-destructive survivor of sexual abuse, a gay Latino native New Yorker caught somewhere between Catholic guilt and club kid decadence looking to fit in as part of a family. Instead, Mikey delves into a demimonde of petty thieves, prostitutes, and pushers. Haunted by a father that Mikey has never met, a difficult childhood, recurring nightmares, the reality of death, and Christ, the story unfolds through the ‘80’s and ‘90’s following him on his journey through a fascinating world filled with Santeros, transsexuals and voguing queens.

 
Praise for Christ Like:

 
“Christ Like is the harrowing first novel by Emanuel Xavier.  When it was first published ten years ago, it announced the arrival of a unique and important new voice among both gay and Latino/a writers.  Ten years later, the novel retains its compelling power as it takes the reader on a jagged journey though the New York club scene; in theme and naked urgency, it may be justly compared to Dancer from the Dance and Last Exit to Brooklyn, but its heartbeat is puro latino.”

-Michael Nava, author of The Little Death and Rag and Bone

 
"The emotional honesty of Emanuel Xavier’s writing grabs and holds you like a vice.  For more than a decade, Xavier has been an essential voice for an urban, queer aesthetic that has much to teach the world about creativity, resilience, and unflinching love.  In re-issuing this rare work, he has given us all a gift.”

-Kai Wright, author of Drifting Toward love 

 
“An open hearted novel from the soul of New York City.  From the Valencia Bakery to Club Escuelita, a first generation American is forced to the edge by other people's prejudices.  There he finds love, hate, pleasure, and danger with a wide array of men whose lives are never recorded in American literature.  This novel will not come out of an MFA program or be optioned for HBO because of the censorship of experience in our current arts and entertainment industry.  But its story of people valued, thrown-away, losing, and surviving is central to understanding who we are and where we live.  All of us.”

-Sarah Schulman