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Suzette Mayr: The Sleeping Car Porter (Paperback, 2022, Coach House Books) 4 stars

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend …

The Sleeping Car Porter

4 stars

The Sleeping Car Porter is kind of an ensemble farce with subtle paranormal elements, experienced through a porter for a sleeping car on a transcontinental voyage across Canada.

The porter is a gay (or bi?) black man in Canada in the 1920s, and there's a strong focus on the various aggressions and disadvantages he's exposed to in light of that.

Weird and enjoyable.