A virtual event with Whiting Award-winning author, Kaitlyn Greenidge, launching her Scribd Originals "Orgy."
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Acclaimed, bestselling author Kaitlyn Greenidge’s latest work, "Orgy" is a sexy and wildly engaging story that maps New York City as a place shaped by human appetite, rebellion, and a need to connect that breaks the rules and explodes differences between races and genders.
Nessa knows she’s a hot mess. She’s strong, impulsive, and won’t apologize for it. It’s the late spring of 2020, and after twenty years in Brooklyn, she has zero regrets, even during a pandemic that seems to be robbing Nessa of what makes her her-desire, feeling it, inspiring it, finding the secret parts of a lover’s body, skin on skin.
When she’s invited to a party downtown, Nessa knows she shouldn’t go, but she can’t resist. The invite’s subject line billed it as an “Orgy,” thrown by some furries she knows. Finally, a place to escape her lockdown misery.
At the party, Nessa can’t help but see what she’s been missing. She confronts vestiges of her younger self, someone who everyone noticed and who noticed in reply: men, women, Black and white, gay or straight, nonbinaries, you name it. Now she feels like a ghost-until a chance encounter challenges how far she will go to achieve the “pure glory of having a body and being alive.”
As we collectively emerge from lockdown, Greenidge’s new story is perfectly timed for the moment. Funny, lusty, and relatable, it captures our yearning, our humanity, and how we are all transformed by the world around us and by one another.