Gender Format:Paperback and the power of the

and the power of the truth to set us free

the gentrification of New York

He meditates on desire

and casual sex--all while keeping the rest of their family in the dark

" --Booker Prize Judges

Gender Format:Paperback and the power of theGender is a polyphonic portrait of the representation of gender in art, from acclaimed playwright and artist Travis Alabanza Gender is performance. Think of the acts of drama that go hand in hand with our experience of gender: a man spreading his legs on a train; a woman showing biceps in a boiler suit saying, "We Can Do it!"; a stiletto heel stepping on a briefcase. It seems wherever gender goes, there follows a show of what it might be trying to