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Maggie Terry: BGSQD

  • BGSQD 208 W 13th St #210, New York, NY 10011 United States (map)

Join Sarah Schulman for the BESPOKE Queer Reading Series at the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, with Yanyi and Heather Lynn Johnson.


A former police detective’s addictions jeopardize a murder case in this iconic queer writer’s return to pulp fiction.

“Sarah Schulman's startling brilliance and wry humor is everything.” —Jacqueline Woodson, author of Another Brooklyn

Post-rehab, Maggie Terry is single-mindedly trying to keep her head down in New York City. There’s a madman in the White House, the subways are constantly delayed, summer is relentless, and neighborhoods all seem to blend together.

Against this absurd backdrop, Maggie wants nothing more than to slowly rebuild her life in hopes of being reunited with her daughter. But her first day on the job as a private investigator lands her in the middle of a sensational new case: actress strangled. If Maggie is going to solve this mystery, she’ll have to shake the ghosts—dead NYPD partner, vindictive ex, steadfast drug habit—that have long ruled her life.