KRAKOW MELT

Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction FinalistShortlisted for a ReLit AwardShortlisted for an Independent Literary AwardThis second novel by Lambda Literary Awardfinalist Daniel Allen Cox (Shuck) is an incendiary story about two pyromaniacs who fighthomophobia in Krakow, Poland, one of thefronts of the Solidarnosc revolution that eventually toppled the Berlin Wall in 1989. Its 2005, and Poland is grappling with its newfound role as a member of the European Union: the nation dips into moral crisis as Pope John Paul II(a Pole) hovers near death while the countryssoon-to-be president makes homophobic declarations.Radek, a bisexual artist and a practitioner ofthe extreme urban sport parkour, is convincedthat fire is the great stabilizer. While creatingminiature replicas of the worlds great infernos--Chicago 1871, San Francisco 1906, London 1666--he meets Dorota, a literature student and budding pyromaniac. Driven by rage, sexual curiosity for one another, and Pink Floyd, they buck church, government, and the LGBT community to find sexual freedom, escaping theirenemies by scaling the crumbling walls andideas of the city.Provocative and unnerving, Krakow Melt is at once a love letter and a fiery call to arms.