If You Need Me I'll Be Over There
β Scribed by Dave Madden
- Book ID
- 110833474
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 170 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780253020710
- ASIN
- B01C3WRVPE
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
"Beautifully crafted stories [that] move effortlessly between worlds where people misstep into tragic loss and end up in a circus act, or maybe even in love." βJonis Agee, author of The Bones of Paradise
This outstanding collection of short stories tells the tale of a different kind of differenceβone not set in the glittering lights of New York or Los Angeles, but in the grand and wide American Midwest. For Dave Madden's characters, their queerness is part of the environment, like the soil, the sky, and the supermarket: an HIV-positive chemist uses football to connect with his brothers; a seventeen-year-old girl tussles with a cartoon cobra to avoid thinking about the mother who abandoned her; and a hotel concierge starts attending Mass even though his partner was molested by a priest.
In seeking out the ordinary struggles of extraordinary people trying to figure out their place within families and communities, Madden masterfully explores what it means to be an outsider always looking in.
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