Proximity

This personal essay collection by Sam Heaps is a literary mediation on sex and intimacy. Heaps¿ voice comes through as a millennial Anais Nin, sharing intimate encounters in an vulnerable and artful way. Each partner plays a role in the self-discovery of the narrator, creating a song of desire and regret, a pop melody with blues undertones. Heaps lets readers become the ultimate voyeurs, displaying nakedly what we secretly feel in our most intimate moments but might be scared or unable to vocalize. Proximity brings the reader skin to skin with their own unspoken desires in fresh exciting, arresting ways.