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If We Were Electric: Stories

If We Were Electric: Stories

Ryan, Patrick Earl

Paperback

Series: Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, Book 115

General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction

Publisher Price: $21.95

ISBN10: 082035807X
ISBN13: 9780820358079
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Sep 15 2020
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.43
Language: English

If We Were Electric's twelve stories celebrate New Orleans in all of its beautiful peculiarities: macabre and magical, muddy and exquisite, sensual and spiritual. The stunning debut collection finds its characters in moments of desire and despair, often stuck on the verge of a great metamorphosis, but burdened by some unreasonable love. These are stories about missed opportunities, about people on the outside who don't fit in, about the consequences of not mustering enough courage to overcome the binds.

In Feux Follet, an old man's grief attracts supernatural lights in the dark Louisiana swamps. An exploding transformer's raw, unnerving energy in the title story matches the strange, ferocious temper of an unlucky hustler. Blackout sets the profound numbness of a young man physically abused by his mentally unstable partner beside the meaningful beauty of an unexpected moment of joy with someone else. The teenage narrator in Before Las Blancas is so overwhelmed by his sexuality that he abandons everything and everyone he's known to live in a happy illusion . . . in Mexico. And Where It Takes Us is a poignant, understated snapshot of a gay man who accompanies his straight, HIV-positive brother to the race track to bond again.

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