The Most Beautiful Rot

Ocean Capewell’s 2014 novel, The Most Beautiful Rot, is the story of four queer friends living in a punkhouse and the ways their lives intersect, crash together, and pull apart. Half devastating piece of modern American life, half rally cry to find a better way to live and build your own family, Capewell’s beautifully-written book is equal parts painful and inspiring. If (as it’s said) On The Road sent a million teenagers out onto the highways of America, this book could have the power to send lots of young people out in search of their own alternate families. Much recomended.