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I learn so much from my daily RSS feed of Blog of a Bookslut. With a name like that, how could I not? Today I learned that Nerve.com has a monthly Henry Miller award for best sex scene in a book published in the English language. Categories are Most Literary Merit, Heat, Originality, and Overall. Each month's winners will go on to compete in a year end competition.
Seems to me, that would be something Satan would keep his eye on, very closely.
Well, I do not rightly know how to explain “"trash sex magic",” other than to assure you, there are forces at work in this book, and they aren’t working for Jesus. It’s the story of Raedawn Sommershoe and her mother Gelia, who live in a trailer on the bank of the Fox river. Rae and her mother have a magical connection to nature in all it’s carnal, sexy glory. Their lives, and the lives of the other odd characters living along side them, are endangered when the meadow across US 31 is torn down to make way for condos. Alexander Caebeau, exiled from his home in the Bahamas by his magical granny, is getting tired of tearing down trees, putting up buildings, and getting fat on hamburgers. When he meets Rae, things start to change for, and about, Alexander, spring goes on hyper drive, the river starts to rise and nature gets seriously pissed off with commercial real estate planners.
This book is dank, dark and swampy, you feel moist just reading it. It smells of mold and musk, and it makes you sneeze with the pollen it puts off. There is a lot of heat in this story, and it's not a dry heat, kids. It's sticky, green, sweaty and... oh, ok, slutty, in it's lushness.
Oh, how many delicious, warm, slick, animalistic ways does this book endanger your soul? Almost too many to count. There’s alcoholism, drug use, incest, racism, spousal abuse, violence, greed, paganism, therianthropy, worshipping of false idols, tree homicide, magic, extreme nudity, underage sex, dirty sex, animal sex, fish sex, bug sex, mud sex, tree sex, homosexual sex, evil real estate tycoons threatening the lives of small children and immoral insurances salesmen. It gets a four out of five just for making you think that there might be magic in nature that exists outside of God's plan. As if!
