Desert Boys: Fiction - 9781250141019

Winner of the Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award Finalist for the Binghamton University?s John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist for the Saroyan Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize "Hilarious, Devious, Original, and Unforgettable."?Karen Russell This series of powerful, intertwining stories illuminates Daley Kushner?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. A luminous debut, Desert Boys by Chris McCormick 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. 9781250141019 125014101X 0 BOOK Fiction http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xAzwAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api http://books.google.com/books/content?id=xAzwAQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=1&source=gbs_api en 9781250141019

Author: Chris Mccormick

Publisher: Picador

Publication Date: Jan 09, 2018

Number of Pages: 240 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 125014101X

ISBN-13: 9781250141019