Joseph Cassara
Joseph Cassara was born and raised in New Jersey. He holds degrees from Columbia University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has been a writing fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. This is his first novel.
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The House of Impossible Beauties
- By: Joseph Cassara
- Narrator: Christian Barillas
- Length: 15 hours 35 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: February 06, 2018
- Language: English
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A gritty and gorgeous debut that follows a cast of gay and transgender club kids navigating the Harlem ball scene of the 1980s and ’90s, inspired by the real House of Xtravaganza made famous by the seminal documentary Paris Is... Read more
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