The United States is a spiritual wasteland—a two-party dictatorship that worships money and that easts human beings alive, where racial and gender oppression attack the body, and where partisan polarization stifles the mind. In this dreary context, A.W. Strouse pursues a life of sin and salvation. As a queer scholar of the Middle Ages and a promiscuous gay Catholic in New York City, Strouse takes Saint Augustine as a guide for turning the personal confession into a critical meditation on gentrified urban space.
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