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Lädt ... Desert Boys: Fictionvon Chris McCormick
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. fiction (interconnected short stories loosely based on author's experiences, gay coming-of-age in conservative California town in the 2000s). ( ) “Desert Boys links thirteen stories centering around three boys. Two eventually leave and one stays. Much of the action is set in Antelope Valley, a small California town town bordered by the Mojave desert. The timeline jumps around. Loose ends are allowed to rest, only to surface in another story - not unlike little nuggets dropped accidentally, maybe at a cousin's wedding reception. There's a secret that lurks fallow strangled over time by intervening realities. There's something about growing up friendships. I still miss a childhood friend from when I was three years old into my mid-teens when his family moved away. We change, we move, and the experience seems gone. There's too much going on for us to feel the emptiness. But the roots bind without us knowing. And when it goes away, it never really does, an ineffable sorrow, lurking on some shelf in the unreachable, read-only past. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"In the tradition of startling debuts such as We, the Animals by Justin Torres, Desert Boys follows the life of Daley Kushner, growing up, coming out, and grappling with the remnants of his childhood in California's Mojave Desert. This series of powerful, linked stories illuminates Daley's world--the family, friends, and community that have both formed and constrained him, and his new life in San Francisco. Back home, the desert preys on those who cannot conform: an alfalfa farmer on the outskirts of town; two young girls whose curiosity leads to danger; a black politician who once served as his school's Confederate mascot; Daley's mother, an immigrant from Armenia; and Daley himself, introspective and queer. Meanwhile, in another desert on the other side of the world, war threatens to fracture Daley's most meaningful--and most fraught--connection to home, his friendship with Robert Karinger. Desert Boys traces the development of towns into cities, of boys into men, and the haunting effects produced when the two transformations overlap. Both a bildungsroman and a portrait of a changing place, the book mines the terrain between the desire to escape and the hunger to belong"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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