Palm Beach Gothic (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798189580482)

Along Dixie Highway, where Palm Beach's gilded world ends and something rawer begins, the strange and the beautiful collide. Palm Beach Gothic and Other Florida Stories is a novel-in-stories that moves from the Covid-policed beaches of California to the polo fields of Wellington, from the sashay of Key West drag queens to a megachurch service built on smoke machines and selective scripture - all orbiting the gravitational center of The Colony Hotel on Palm Beach Island, with its spectral leprechauns and disappearing monkeys, and the dive bar "Mad's," several miles south with a bright red door on Dixie Highway.

At the heart of the collection is the novella "Palm Beach Gothic: A Tale of Midnight on Dixie Highway," where a glamorous, sardonic drag performer known as Miss Aperitif holds court among an ensemble of loyalists, misfits, and colonizers, until a rainy Pride night ends in violence no one will acknowledge and grief no one quite knows how to perform. These stories blend biting satire and empathy to explore who we are in private-and what we owe one another when the people we loved are gone

Author: Paul Kevin Wood
ISBN-13: 9798189580482
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 07/29/2026
Pages: 220
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d