SOME OF THE PARTS

(Akashic Books, 2002)

Some of the Parts is about families—the ones we’re born into, and the ones we create. In spare, evocative prose, T Cooper tells a compelling story of four fractured lives colliding to re-forge an unlikely definition of family out of their respective exiles.

A Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection

Quality Paperback Book Club selection

Lambda Literary Award finalist

“A wholly original novel that’s both discomforting and compelling to read . . . questing characters.”

—San Francisco Chronicle

 
 

“Sharp, funny, evocative.”
—Village Voice

“A sassy, affectingly earnest first novel.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“If you detest psychological journeys into wussy family politics, you will still enjoy this book . . . Keeps skeptics satisfied.”
—LA Weekly

“The kind of story Anne Tyler might write if she hung out with transgender freak show artists and HIV-positive gay men.”
—Time Out New York

“A wonderfully weird take on the family unit [that’s] worthy of a rock star welcome.”
—Art Voice (Buffalo, NY)

“Best of the year.”
—The Advocate

“Cooper’s scenes have a quirky appeal . . . He deftly captures the seamier motives of his unconventional characters.”
—Publishers Weekly

“Shine a light on this story and its many facets brilliantly gleam back at you.”
—Bust Magazine

“A self-assured and relentlessly honest debut.”
—Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers

“An ambitious . . . charming, [and] affecting debut novel.”
—Bitch Magazine

“T Cooper [has] set the literary world on fire.”
—QSF Magazine

“A cast of well-drawn seekers change the parameters of family in this edgy, erotic first novel.”
—East Bay Express