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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Hurricane Heaney

Hurricane Heaney

Indra, Ben

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Publisher Price: $13.95

ISBN10: 1035879018
ISBN13: 9781035879014
Publisher: Austin Macauley
Published: Feb 21 2025
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Hurricane Heaney is a fish-out-of-water memoir of a gay Indonesian man, Ben, who finds himself marrying into a salt-of-the-earth Irish family. Unlike many stories involving LGBTQ+ protagonists, this is not a tragic tale about a traumatic coming out, nor even about the novelty of living in a gay marriage in Ireland's catholic bible belt. It's about how landing in the loving arms of a large yet close family acts as an emotional mirror to Ben's early life in Indonesia, giving him, in fact, a safe space to process what drove him out of one family in Indonesia, and into the encircling airs of another in Ireland. Invoking the specific situation of a gay man crossing the world seeking - and finding - redemption through love, it presents a unique and uplifting ideal of what gay strength looks like. Through tears, songs, rants and a lot of laughter, the book explores, in a humorous way, universal truths about family values, rituals, obligations, and their core foundation, love.

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