**Winner of the 2022 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Fiction. A *New York Times Book Review* Editors’ Choice. Longlisted for the 2022 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award and the 2021 Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize. One of *Buzzfeed* ‘s Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2021, NBC’s 10 Most Notable LGBTQ Books of 2021, and *Pink News* ‘ Best LGBTQ Books of 2021. ** **This hurricane of delirious, lonely, lewd tales is a taxonomy and grand unified theory of the boyfriend, in every tense.* *— * *Parul Sehgal,* The New York Times*** * * * I loved this book— **raunchy, irreverent, deliberate, sexy, angry, and tender, in its own way.** — **Roxane Gay** * * * An irrerverent, sensitive, and inimitable look at gay dysfunction through the eyes of a cult hero Transgressive, foulmouthed, and brutally funny, Brontez Purnell’s *100 Boyfriends* is a revelatory spiral into the imperfect lives of queer men desperately fighting the urge to self-sabotage. As they tiptoe through minefields of romantic, substance-fueled misadventure—from dirty warehouses and gentrified bars in Oakland to desolate farm towns in Alabama—Purnell’s characters strive for belonging in a world that dismisses them for being Black, broke, and queer. In spite of it—or perhaps because of it—they shine. Armed with a deadpan wit, Purnell finds humor in even the darkest of nadirs with the peerless zeal, insight, and horniness of a gay punk messiah. Together, the slice-of-life tales that writhe within *100 Boyfriends* are an inimitable tour of an unexposed queer underbelly. Holding them together is the vision of an iconoclastic storyteller, as fearless as he is human.