"Benson provides a comprehensive and provocative overview of the intersectionality of the Dahmer case, evidencing the ways in which true crime cannot exist within a vacuum. Infinity Land offers great insights into the ways in which historical and institutional racism and homophobia can be mapped onto growing serial killer cultures."

– Charlotte “Charley” Barnes, lecturer in cultural studies at the University of Worcester and author of Deconstructing True Crime Literature

In 1988, a thirteen-year-old girl named Meko arrived in Milwaukee as a refugee from Thailand. Not long after, she met Jeffrey Dahmer—the notorious serial killer and sex offender who, between 1978 and 1991, murdered and dismembered at least seventeen men and boys. Over the course of three years, Meko, along with Laotian victims Somsack and Konerak Sinthasomphone, developed an unlikely and disturbing friendship with Dahmer, offering a rare, firsthand perspective on one of America’s most infamous criminals.

252 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 11 b&w illustrations

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Josef Benson is associate professor of literatures and languages at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. He is author of Star Wars: The Triumph of Nerd Culture; J. D. Salinger’s “The Catcher in the Rye”: A Cultural History; Hypermasculinities in the Contemporary Novel: Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin; and coauthor with Doug Singsen of Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels, published by University Press of Mississippi. For more information about the author and his work, please visit www.josefbenson.com.

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