PURNELL, Brontez
100 Boyfriends

Transgressive, foulmouthed, and brutally funny, Brontez Purnell’s 100 Boyfriends is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. As they tiptoe through minefields of romantic, substance-fueled misadventure—from dirty warehouses and gentrified bars in Oakland to desolate farm towns in Alabama—Purnell’s characters strive for belonging in a world that dismisses them for being Black, broke, and queer. In spite of it—or perhaps because of it—they shine. [publishers’ note]

Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction.

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2021
Literature / Queer Culture / Sex