He travels through the history of the Dominican Republic, revealing its queer foundations while challenging the notion that time and space are static, unchanging categories.’ Alexandra Marraccini Wasafiri ‘Alcide is a queer world unto himself. Bursting with punk energy and lyricism, it’s a restless, addictive trip: The Tempest meets the telenovela. Tentacle is an electric novel with a big appetite and a brave vision, plunging headfirst into questions of climate change, technology, Yoruba ritual, queer politics, poverty, sex, colonialism and contemporary art. But first she must become the man she always was – with the help of a sacred anemone. Plucked from her life on the streets of post-apocalyptic Santo Domingo, young maid Acilde Figueroa finds herself at the heart of a Santería prophecy: only she can travel back in time and save the ocean – and humanity – from disaster.
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