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LOTE

On sale

26th March 2020

Price: £8.99

James Tait Black – Fiction, 2021

Selected:  Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781913090111

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Reviews

Paul Mendez, author of Rainbow Milk
An inspirational, cutting, exquisitely written, multilevel excavation of forgotten Black lives and an Afro-queer celebration of art, aesthetics, literature, and society.
Alice Winn, The Guardian
It's funny and weird and dazzlingly clever.
Houman Barekat, The Guardian
a celebration of eccentric esprit
FRIEZE
Lote is a magical, revolutionary piece of writing
Paul Mendez, author of Rainbow Milk
An inspirational, cutting, exquisitely written, multilevel excavation of forgotten Black lives and an Afro-queer celebration of art, aesthetics, literature, and society.
Scott Manley Hadley, https://triumphofthenow.com/2023/07/05/lote-by-shola-von-reinhold/
LOTE is very very very close to being a masterpiece (and one could make the case that it's so close that it is one)... ...it's fucking brilliant - provocative, raucously funny, intelligent without being smarmy and uses multiple voices of alleged different sources. Read LOTE, it's great.
Louise Binns, The Mistress Of Books
...phenomenal writing. [Shola has] a clear talent for describing emotions, people, places, colours and textures so vividly and I loved their ability to capture life's more absurd moments (I'm thinking of the Pousse Café Royal cocktail in particular). LOTE has a serious message at its core, a message that will certainly inform my intersectional feminist activism moving forwards, especially as a white, middle-class, straight woman. But LOTE is just as much a joyful celebration of Black culture that gloriously succeeds at reappropriating eccentricity, usually reserved for white members of the aristocracy, through a Black, queer lens.