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The Prettiest Star

The Prettiest Star - Paperback

by Carter Sickels
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Availability:In StockContributor:Carter SickelsSeries:Cold Mountain FundPublish date:2021-05-25Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Hub City PressISBN-13:9781938235832ISBN-10:1938235835UPC:9781938235832Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, Southern, LiteraryBook Topic:GaySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCAX50PT04

One of 2020's most acclaimed books. Winner of the Southern Book Prize - Winner of the Weatherford Award - A Kirkus Best Fiction Book of 2020 - One of O Magazine's Best LGBT Books of 2020 - - One of the Women's National Book Association's 2020 Great Group Reads Selections - EW's 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2020 - BookRiot - Lambda Literary's - Salon - BookPage's - Garden & Gun's - Logo NewNowNext's

In this "brutally fresh kind of homecoming novel," (Entertainment Weekly) Brian Jackson returns to his small Appalachian hometown and the family who rejected him. Carter Sickels's stunning literary achievement "deserves a place in the canon of AIDS literature alongside the likes of Larry Kramer and Rebecca Makkai" (Los Angeles Review of Books).

The story of Brian's return to small-town Ohio is told in a chorus of voices: Brian's mother Sharon; his fourteen-year-old sister, Jess, as she grapples with her brother's mysterious return; and the video diaries Brian makes to document his final summer. Written in prose that seeks "to answer without flinching away from ugliness and without demonizing the ignorant" (Salon), The Prettiest Star offers an urgent portrait of a family in the center of a national crisis, in order to tell a unique story about the politics and fragility of the body, and to explore the bounds of family and redemption.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Hub City PressISBN-13:9781938235832ISBN-10:1938235835UPC:9781938235832Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:LGBTQ+, Southern, LiteraryBook Topic:GaySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 1.00 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCAX50PT04
Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Evening Hour. He is the recipient of the 2013 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Award, and has been awarded scholarships to Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, VCCA, and the MacDowell Colony. His essays and fiction have appeared in various publications, including Guernica, Bellevue Literary Review, and BuzzFeed, and he is the editor of Untangling the Knot: Queer Voices on Marriage, Relationships & Identity. Carter is Assistant Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University, where he teaches in the Bluegrass Writers Studio Low-Residency MFA program. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
Publisher: Hub City Press

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