Second paragraph of third chapter:

Paulius has draped a robe over Kenna’s shoulders as he leads Kenna across the orchard, headed for a small frosted-glass door set into a polished aluminum wall. Kenna clutches at the white linen lapels, reveling in the feeling of clean cloth; he’s worn his filthy Inevitable Robe for so long he can no longer distinguish between the stained cloth and his squalid skin.

I used to occasionally dip into Ferrett Steinmetz’s livejournal back in the day – I remember a particularly vivid account he wrote about of having sex during a showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show. This was one of the books in the 2020 Hugo packet which I have only just now got around to. It is a space opera with a somewhat wacky setting. It didn’t really grab me and I gave up after a hundred pages. But you can get it here.

This was my top unread book acquired in 2020. Next on that pile is Desdemona and the Deep, by C.S.E. Cooney.