ProximityA LITERARY MEDITATION ON SEX. SAM HEAPS IS A MILLENNIAL ANAS NIN, EXPLORING THEIR MOST INTIMATE POWER STRUGGLES WITH A RAW AND ARTFUL VOICE. Each partner is a new mask through which the narrator discovers themselves, creating a song through each personal essay of desire and regret a pop melody with blues undertones. Heaps lets readers become the ultimate voyeurs, displaying nakedly what we secretly feel in our most intimate moments. Proximity brings

a Thai French woman

000 years from the Stone Age to the apocalypse

across the Midwest

the early 1990s promised a “kinder

And in a society where lack of identification is a crime

In Palestine

I had this incredible feeling that I could catch things

He would return to scenes of espionage and global events

Debré chronicles the process that made her one of the most brilliant

Then he gets a call from a sometime contact in the police department

who wanted to give him a chance at a respectable life

Michael Silverblatt