Black Sheep Boy: A Novel in Stories
- Editore:
RARE BIRD BOOKS BARNACLE
- EAN:
9781947856066
- ISBN:
1947856065
- Pagine:
- 208
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione Black Sheep Boy: A Novel in Stories
Winner of the 2017 PEN Center USA Award for FictionMeet Boo, a wild-hearted boy from the bayou land of Louisiana. Misfit, outcast, loner. Call him anything but a victim. Sissy, fairy, Jenny Woman. Son of a mixed-race Holy Ghost mother and a Cajun French phantom father. In a series of tough and tender stories, he encounters gender outlaws, drag queen renegades, and a rogues gallery of sex-starved priests, perverted teachers, and murderous bar owners. To escape his haunted history, Boo must shed his old skin and make a new self. As he does, his story rises from dark and murk, from moss and mud, to reach a new light and a new brand of fairy tale. Cajun legends, queer fantasies, and universal myths converge into a powerful work of counter-realism. Black Sheep Boy is a song of passion and a novel of defiance.