Krakow Melt

This novel is a scathing indictment of steadfastly homophobic post-Solidarity Poland. The novel opens in 2005, as Poland is grappling with its newfound role as a member of the European Union. Radek, a bisexual artist and a practitioner of the extreme urban sport parkour, is convinced that fire is the great stabilizer. He meets Dorota, a literature student and budding pyromaniac. Driven by rage, sexual curiosity for one another, and shocking hidden messages they discover in Pink Floyd lyrics, they buck Church, government, and the LGBT community to find sexual freedom, escaping their enemies by scaling the crumbling walls and ideas of the city.