# Neotenica

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- Book: [Neotenica](https://www.bookquiver.com/joon-oluchi-lee/neotenica) ([Neotenica.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joon-oluchi-lee/neotenica.md))
- Authors: [Joon Oluchi Lee](https://www.bookquiver.com/joon-oluchi-lee)
- Publisher: Nightboat Books
- ISBN: 978-16-4362-020-6
- Pages: 120
- Published: 2020-08-06
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Neotenica is a novel of encounters: casual sex, arranged-marriage dates, cops, rowdy teenagers, lawyers, a Sapphic flirtation, a rival, a child, and two important dogs. At the center of it are Young Ae, a Korean-born ballet dancer turned PhD student, and her husband, a Korean-American male who inhabits an interior femininity, neither transgender nor homosexual, but a strong, visceral femininity nonetheless. This novel is an adrenaline filled ride sliding across the surface of desire and chance through the quotidian turned playful.