Faun

Set in the Mexican-American community of East LA, Trebor Healey's Faun is an urban fantasy, a new fairy tale about pagan earth spirit, lust and faith, Los Angeles and history. As Gilberto Rubio enters puberty, he finds his body transforming, but not in the same way as his classmates. He is alarmed by the emergence of horn nubs, extreme hair growth on his legs, and the warping of his feet into hooves, to say nothing of how he's making everyone around him horny. His Catholic mother fears for his eternal soul and falls under the sway of that most nefarious of fixers, the exorcist. Meanwhile online, Gilberto grows desperate and encounters an odd wise man who hints of satyrs and centaurs. And so begins the next phase of his journey of discovery and self-acceptance. Sexy, funny, and spell-binding, Faun is a tale quite unlike any other and offers Healey's lyrical, witty and thoughtful prose in the service of mythology, antiquity and earth sexuality – all in the guise of comic misadventure.

Trebor Healey is a Lambda Literary Award winner and a two-time recipient of the Ferro-Grumley Award. His second novel, Faun was originally published in 2012. He has written three novels, three collections of short stories, a book of poetry and numerous essays on the queer experience, often through a Catholic lens. Through It Came Bright Colors, his first novel, and two collections of short stories – A Perfect Scar and Eros & Dust – are available in recent ReQueered Tales editions.

”Both strikingly beautiful and coarsely humorous, this engaging novel by urban fantasist Trebor Healey, anchored in the sensibilities of the West Coast Mexican-American community, gives the modern bildungsroman a magical twist.” — Publishers Weekly

“Trebor Healey pulls down the pants of urban fantasy to reveal something entirely new.” — Tom Cardamone, Green Thumb

“This magical tale about a boy unexpectedly turning into a faun is funny, poignant and erotic. Faun offers a wise meditation on our relationship to the earth as well as each other – and to our sexuality, which is the ‘greenest’ part of us all.” — Mark Thompson, Advocate Days

“Like the best magic realism, Faun is a celebration of uniqueness and a coming-of-age tale that, with lyrical prose and often outrageous plot, reveals the beauty and strangeness of the world.” — Amie M. Evans, co-editor Saints+Sinners: New Fiction from the Festival

Recipient of The James Duggins Lambda Literary Award for Mid-Career Novelists, Trebor Healey also received the Violet Quill award for his first novel, Through It Came Bright Colors, and the Publishing Triangle's Ferro-Grumley Award in Fiction for both A Horse Named Sorrow and Through It Came Bright Colors. In addition, he has penned the speculative fiction novel, Faun, and a homoerotic poetry collection, Sweet Son of Pan, along with three collections of stories - A Perfect Scar & Other Stories, Eros & Dust and Falling. He co-edited (with Marci Blackman) Beyond Definition: New Writing from Gay and Lesbian San Francisco, and co-edited (with Amie Evans) Queer & Catholic.