· stray city by Chelsey Johnson ‧ RELEASE DATE: Ma A debut novel about the families we’re given and the families we www.doorway.ru: Jessica Jernigan. “Charming, witty, and perfectly fast-paced, Chelsey Johnson’s Stray City examines the modern family through the lens of one extraordinarily quirky family out of Portland, Oregon.” -- Pop Sugar “A propulsive, compassionate, hilarious novel about coming of age at the fraught intersections of Midwestern family norms, punk rock community, and LGBTQ politics.”4/5(80). · Into this space comes Chelsey Johnson’s much-anticipated debut novel Stray City, which tells the story of a lesbian-identified woman named Andrea who suddenly finds herself involved in a sexual gray zone with a man and with the idea of being a mother. This ambivalence, between Andrea’s commitment to wanting the things a “good lesbian” should want and the things she finds she wants, is .
"Written with wit and sensitivity and exquisite emotional intelligence, Stray City is an absolute pleasure to read. Chelsey Johnson is one of the most refreshing new voices in literature." Jami Attenberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Middlesteins and All Grown Up. Stray City by Chelsey Johnson: Twenty-something artist Andrea ran away from the Midwest to Portland to escape the expectation to be a mother and create a life for herself as a queer artist. Then, confused and hurt by a break-up, she hooked up with a man—and ended up having his child. Chelsey Johnson's debut novel, which comes after a. STRAY CITY By Chelsey Johnson pp. Custom House. $ For much of "Stray City," Chelsey Johnson's engrossing debut novel, readers are slingshotted back in time to the late s: the.
Chelsey Johnson is a wonder.” -- Justin Torres, bestselling author of We the Animals “Written with wit and sensitivity and exquisite emotional intelligence, Stray City is an absolute pleasure to read. Chelsey Johnson is one of the most refreshing new voices in literature.”. CHELSEY JOHNSON. Chelsey Johnson’s debut novel Stray City was published by Custom House/HarperCollins in , and her writing has appeared in Ploughshares, One Story, Gulf Coast, The New York Times, Elle, Out, and NPR's Selected Shorts, among others. She received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a Stegner Fellowship from Stanford. A thoroughly modern and original anti-romantic comedy, Stray City is an unabashedly entertaining literary debut about the families we’re born into and the families we choose, about finding yourself by breaking the rules, and making bad decisions for all the right reasons. + Read More. ISBN: ISBN X.
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