Oh! You Pretty Things

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 24 31 1)>By the time imaginative Arthur Ohashi starts his junior year at the University of Minnesota in 1970 he's made an art of forging conventionality into armor. That is until Eve Clark turns his careful world upside down. Beautiful and enigmatic Eve pours her considerable charisma into fronting a local rock band called The Tarts - and she wants </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 24 31 1)>Arthur </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 24 31 1)>to play keys for them. As he is absorbed into the band their parties and their giddy world of subversive rock 'n' roll Arthur is increasingly drawn to the Tart's guitarist James Novak whose appreciation for underground records and androgyny unlocks long-suppressed desires in him. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(17 24 31 1)>As Eve and James strip Arthur's armor away (and replace it with lush red lipstick) he embarks on a path of self-discovery entirely outside his expectation or experience tapping into a well of bombshell energy he never knew he had. But when Arthur finds himself caught in the middle of Eve and James' complicated relationship he realizes that he can't continue to contort himself to fit into other people's expectations. Not if the cost is himself.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Grounded in local LGBTQIA history </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Oh! You Pretty Things</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a story of self-actualization love and rock 'n' roll. Fans of the Velvet Underground Ziggy Stardust and T.Rex will find themselves at home in the rich soundtrack of this novel set to music. </span></p>