The Boundaries a Romance Novel Can Break
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In Corinne Hoex’s , sex is a dream. The book’s protagonist floats between abstract, ethereal trysts. When she visits a gas-station attendant in her sleep, she is a soapy sponge in his hands. Caressed by a pet groomer, she purrs; she’s his cat. Her liaisons are absurd and illicit—yet, crucially, never dangerous. is not a classic romance novel or a straightforward bodice ripper, Zoë Hu . But it shares a similar affection for unrestraint. The novel’s “urgency and fidelity to naive pleasure are,
