Gabriel Carle : Bad Seed

Pre-recovery, pre-therapy, the young, queer characters in Bad Seed, Gabriel Carle’s first collection published in English, have not yet sorted out their passions. Their lives are messy; their stories can’t be neat. The geographic center of these eight stories is the University of Puerto Rico in San Juan, specifically the theater steps, where Carle’s narrators and their friends— “the Bad Decision Club”—meet between classes.