RaveTimes Literary Supplement (UK)An island history that’s deeply felt and keenly judged ... Parlett pays lively attention to...conflicts in all their local particularity, never letting the island become an ill-suited synecdoche for queer America more widely. Instead it emerges as a singular place, and an almost improbably influential one ... Fire Island is an intimate history, alive to the importance of dress, sex, bodily alteration, insobriety and dance. It’s aptly punctuated with scenes from the author’s own island visits during a period living in Manhattan.
