http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/01/13/the_time_he_desires_gay_muslim_furry_romance_is_a_book_against_the_trump.html "Kyell Gold’s new novel may lie at the most unlikely intersection in literary history: a gay immigrant Muslim romance involving furries—that is, people who feel a close identification with anthropomorphic animal characters. “I wrote this book in part as a response to the wave of Islamophobia in this country,” Gold explained in an author’s note, “never dreaming at the time that it would crest as it has now.”"