Praise for Wheeler’s Mercedes General:

“Tender and incisive, Wheeler’s stories meditate on mortality and loss in ways both discomfiting and consolatory. Spanning forty years, Mercedes General is also a queer coming-of-age collection that muses on death and fragility in a manner nothing short of revelatory. Never succumbing to the maudlin or the macabre, Wheeler’s collection charts the painful journey from the uncertainty of adolescence to the hard-earned cynicism of adulthood.” —Brian Alessandro, author of Performer Non Grata, co-writer of Edmund White’s A Boy’s Own Story: The Graphic Novel, and co-editor of Fever Spores: The Queer Reclamation of William S. Burroughs.