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LGBTQIA+ Adult January/February 2021
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Exquisite Mariposa
by Fiona Alison Duncan
Follows a cast of housemates in Koreatown, Los Angeles, including an artist with a pet pigeon and an infamous philanderer as they navigate questions of art-making and economies, breakups, breakdowns and the internet and its many obsessions.
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Carved in Bone
by Michael Nava
Criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios, fresh out of rehab, reluctantly accepts work as an insurance claims investigator and is assigned to investigate the accidental death of Bill Ryan. Ryan, part of the great gay migration into San Francisco in the 1970s, has died in his flat of carbon monoxide poisoning, his young lover barely surviving. Rios's investigation into Ryan's death tracks Ryan's life from his arrival in San Francisco as a terrified 18-year-old to his transformation into a successful businessman. What begins for Rios as the search for the truth about Bill Ryan's death becomes the search for the meaning of Ryan's life.
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The archive of alternate endings
by Lindsey Drager
Tracking the evolution of Hansel and Gretel at seventy-five-year intervals that correspond with earth's visits by Halley's Comet, The Archive of Alternate Endings explores how stories are disseminated and shared, edited and censored, voiced and left untold. Through a relay of speculative pieces that oscillate between eco-fiction and psychological horror, The Archive of Alternate Endings explores sibling love in the face of trauma over the course of a millennium, in the vein of Richard McGuire's Here and Lars von Trier's Melancholia.
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The Not Wives
by Carley Moore
The Not Wives traces the lives of three women as they navigate the Occupy Wall Street movement and each other. In the midst of economic collapse and class conflict, late-night hookups and polyamorous girlfriends, they piece together a new American identity of resistance—against financial precarity, gentrifying New York, and the traditional role of a wife.
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Like this afternoon forever
by Jaime Manrique
For the last fifty years, the Colombian drug cartels, various insurgent groups, and the government have fought over the control of the drug traffic, in the process destroying vast stretches of the Amazon, devastating Indian communities, and killing tens of thousands of homesteaders. Inspired by these events, Like This Afternoon Forever weaves in two narratives: the shocking story of a series of murders known internationally as "the false positives," and the related story of two gay Catholic priests who become lovers when they meet in the seminary.
Available on hoopla
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What's your pronoun? : beyond he & she
by Dennis E Baron
The University of Illinois linguistics professor and national commentator on language issues explores evolving debates regarding modern pronoun usage, tracing the history of pronouns, the creations of new gender pronouns and the role of pronouns in establishing identity and rights.
Available on Cloud Library
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Gay like me : a father writes to his son
by Richie Jackson
The award-winning executive producer of Nurse Jackie presents a timely love letter to his son describing his experiences as a gay man in America and the progress and setbacks of LGBTQ citizens throughout the past 50 years.
Available on Cloud Library
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Mean
by Myriam Gurba
Myriam Gurba's debut is the bold and hilarious tale of her coming of age as a queer, mixed-race Chicana. Blending radical formal fluidity and caustic humor, Mean turns what might be tragic into piercing, revealing comedy. This is a confident, funny, brassy book that takes the cost of sexual assault, racism, misogyny, and homophobia deadly seriously.
Available on Cloud Library
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A sand book
by Ariana Reines
A Sand Book is a poetry collection in nine parts, a travel guide that migrates from wildfires to hurricanes, tweety bird to the president, lust to aridity, desertification to prophecy, and mother to daughter. It explores the negative space of what is happening to language and to consciousness in our strange and desperate times. In her long-awaited follow-up to Mercury, Reines has written her most ambitious work to date, but also her most visceral and satisfying.
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EXCLUSIVE LIVE Virtual Book Club event featuring the author of Be Dazzled, Ryan LaSala Tuesday, February 23, 4:00 pm Register for this exclusive event at slolibrary.org
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