Brooke Skipstone (Bücher)

Brooke Skipstone Bücher

Brooke Skipstone, die in Alaska lebt, fängt die karge Schönheit und die rauen Realitäten der Wildnis meisterhaft ein. Ihr Schreiben erforscht die zyklischen Rhythmen der Natur, von den langen, dunklen Wintern bis zu den intensiven Sommern, und hebt den ständigen Kampf ums Überleben hervor. Skipstone taucht tief in die alaskische Landschaft ein, wo Gefahr und Leben untrennbar miteinander verbunden sind. Ihre Werke zeugen von der zarten Balance zwischen Existenz und Vergänglichkeit und schildern eine Welt intensiver Empfindungen und gefährlicher Anziehungskraft.

The MoonStone Girls

338 Seiten
12 Lesestunden

3,0(2)Abgeben

KIRKUS STARRED " A moving and romantic coming-out story and a triumphant celebration of lesbian liberation."GOLD MEDAL IPPY AWARD—Young Adult FictionGOLD MEDAL READERS' FAVORITE AWARD—Young Adult Coming of AgeWINNER in the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year AwardTracy should have been a boy. Even her older brother Spencer says so, though he wouldn’t finish the thought with, “And I should have been a girl.”Though both feel awkward in their own skin, they have to face who they are—queers in the late 60s.When both are caught with gay partners, their lives and futures are endangered by their homophobic father as their mother struggles to defend them.While the Vietnam War threatens to take Spencer away, Tracy and her father wage a war of their own, each trying to save the sweet, talented pianist.At seventeen, Tracy dresses as a boy and leaves her parents in turmoil, with only the slimmest hope of finding peace within herself. She journeys to a girl with a guitar, calling to her from a photo, "Come to Alaska. We'd be great friends."Maybe even The MoonStone Girls.