Summer fun /
Thornton, Jeanne,
Summer fun / Jeanne Thornton. - 414 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"Gala, a young trans woman, works at a hostel in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. She is obsessed with the Get Happies, the quintessential 1960s Californian band, helmed by its resident genius, B--. Why did the band stop making music? Why did they never release their rumored album, Summer Fun? Gala writes letters to B-- that shed light not only on the Get Happies, but paint an extraordinary portrait of Gala. The parallel narratives of B-- and Gala form a dialogue about creation--of music, identity, self, culture, and counterculture. Summer Fun is an epic and magical work of trans literature that marks Thornton as one of our most exciting and original novelists"--
9781641292382 1641292385
40030665974
2021003845
Transgender women--Fiction.
Transgender people--Fiction.
Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
Tourist camps, hostels, etc.--New Mexico--Fiction.
Popular music--Fiction.
Popular music fans--Fiction.
Musicians--Fiction.
Fans (Persons)--Fiction.
Fan mail--Fiction.
Letter writing--Fiction.
Truth or Consequences (N.M.)--Fiction.
Epistolary fiction.
Transgender fiction.
LGBTQ+.
Summer fun / Jeanne Thornton. - 414 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
"Gala, a young trans woman, works at a hostel in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. She is obsessed with the Get Happies, the quintessential 1960s Californian band, helmed by its resident genius, B--. Why did the band stop making music? Why did they never release their rumored album, Summer Fun? Gala writes letters to B-- that shed light not only on the Get Happies, but paint an extraordinary portrait of Gala. The parallel narratives of B-- and Gala form a dialogue about creation--of music, identity, self, culture, and counterculture. Summer Fun is an epic and magical work of trans literature that marks Thornton as one of our most exciting and original novelists"--
9781641292382 1641292385
40030665974
2021003845
Transgender women--Fiction.
Transgender people--Fiction.
Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
Tourist camps, hostels, etc.--New Mexico--Fiction.
Popular music--Fiction.
Popular music fans--Fiction.
Musicians--Fiction.
Fans (Persons)--Fiction.
Fan mail--Fiction.
Letter writing--Fiction.
Truth or Consequences (N.M.)--Fiction.
Epistolary fiction.
Transgender fiction.
LGBTQ+.