Well, no idea if you're interested in recommendations, but this year I found both Rabih Alameddine's The Angel of History and Sarah Schulman's Maggie Terry to be literary fiction novels that deal with tough subjects (AIDS, gentrification, slow recovery from addiction) in voices that felt authentically queer and based in lived experience. (I suppose you could argue that Maggie Terry is genre, but any detective novel that opens with a dedication to Thelma Wood lives in a liminal zone, IMO, and it's really less about the crime and more about Maggie's psychology.)
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Well, no idea if you're interested in recommendations, but this year I found both Rabih Alameddine's The Angel of History and Sarah Schulman's Maggie Terry to be literary fiction novels that deal with tough subjects (AIDS, gentrification, slow recovery from addiction) in voices that felt authentically queer and based in lived experience. (I suppose you could argue that Maggie Terry is genre, but any detective novel that opens with a dedication to Thelma Wood lives in a liminal zone, IMO, and it's really less about the crime and more about Maggie's psychology.)