Beauty Salon

Description:

A strange plague appears in a large city. Rejected by family and friends, some of the sick have nowhere to finish out their days until a hair stylist decides to offer refuge. He ends up converting his beauty shop, which he’s filled with tanks of exotic fish, into a sort of medieval hospice. As his “guests” continue to arrive and to die, his isolation becomes more and more complete in this dream-hazy parable by one of Mexico’s cutting-edge literary stars.

subjects: Beauty shops,  Diseases,  Gay men,  Fiction,  Mexican fiction,  Peruvian Mexicans,  Plague,  AIDS (Disease),  Epidemics,  Peluqueros,  Salones de belleza,  Epidemias,  Ficción,  LGBTQ HIV/AIDS,  LGBTQ novels,  Stonewall Book Awards,  Fiction, general