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Beautiful Dreamers
Hardcover
Series: Cold Mountain Fund
General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher Price: $28.00
Publisher: Hub City Press
Published: Aug 27 2024
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.45
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Awards: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards
Foreword Book Awards, Finalist
Richard Beale Davis Award for Lifetime Distinguished Service to Southern Letters
New Mexico Book Awards, Winner in Historical Fiction
From Minrose Gwin, award-winning author of The Accidentals, comes Beautiful Dreamers, a story of a precocious teen and her mother, their gay best friend, and the con man who unravels their family.
It's 1953 when Memory Feather and her mother, Virginia, are welcomed back home to the Mississippi Gulf Coast community of Belle Cote by Virginia's childhood friend Mac McFadden, whose verve and energy buoy the recently divorced Virginia to embrace this new chapter. Memory (Mem) is unlike other girls: she is attuned to the voices of plants and animals and is missing two fingers on her twisted left hand. The three of them knit their lives together and become a close, though unconventional, family.
While Mac's wealth, brains, and good humor have allowed him to carve out a niche in Belle Cote, his position as a gay man active in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement exposes him to censure, harassment, and even brutality. When the unscrupulous and charismatic Tony Amato arrives in Belle Cote as Mac's guest, he sets in motion a series of events that will shatter familial bonds and forever change Mem's life. Now, an adult Mem recounts the story of the scars Tony left in her teenage years, confronting her culpability in the disastrous events of that final summer.
Sweeping, dramatic, and vividly rendered, Beautiful Dreamers is a novel of innocence and betrayal, love and intolerance, and the care and honesty we owe the families we choose.
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