\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A gay, punk-rock Chinese American in the age of AIDS, Chin confronts all manner of hypocrisy.\"\u0026#8212;\u003cI\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c/I\u003e\u003c/P\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cI\u003e98 Wounds \u003c/I\u003eis a series of improbably linked stories that reimagines and reconciles the abject, the outlaw, the ostracized, the misfits, and the cranky contrarians among us.\u003c/P\u003e \u003cp\u003eGay people have never been as free\u0026#8212;or divided\u0026#8212;as in today's society. As the gay majority surges into the mainstream, a social construct has emerged depicting \"Good Gays\" and \"Bad Gays.\" Endless mythmaking goes into dehumanizing the Bad.\u003c/P\u003e \u003cp\u003eBarebackers, poz sexpigs, meth-users, sexual libertines, and fetishists have been blamed, shamed, and disdained. Any vicious untruth or loathsome rumor about them\u0026#8212;even those contrary to science or common sense\u0026#8212;is accepted without question.\u003c/P\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe characters populating \u003cI\u003e98 Wounds \u003c/I\u003erun roughshod in a city spiraling towards collapse. They broker urgent desires in constant pursuit of identity, obsession, rituals of hope, even the simplicity of an ordinary life. They unwaveringly root for their own understanding of belonging, contentment, pleasure, and love.\u003c/P\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003cI\u003e98 Wounds\u003c/I\u003e, either we are all damned, or we are all saved: a sentiment that speaks to all cultures in these uncertain times.\u003c/P\u003e \u003cp\u003eAward-winning writer \u003cB\u003eJustin Chin \u003c/B\u003eis the author of six books, including \u003cI\u003eBite Hard \u003c/I\u003e(Manic D Press) and \u003cI\u003eMongrel\u003c/I\u003e (St. Martin's Press). His works have been widely anthologized. Born in Malaysia, raised and educated in Singapore, shipped to the United States by way of Hawaii, he currently lives in San Francisco, California.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e
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