Erscheint: März 2027
Buch (Hardcover): Belletristik
Swans
Verlag:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: P35300026
EAN: 9780374618711
Erscheint: März 2027
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 39.50
Beschreibung
A tender, madcap tale of hitchhiking, lonely hearts, queer dreaming, and the great postal workers' strike of 1970, Swans. is the captivating second novel by the award-winning author of Agatha of Little Neon. It is March 1970, and the postal workers are on strike. Armed with a fold-up knife, a sock full of nickels, and a letter to the woman she loves, Sibby is on the run. An avid lonely-hearts correspondent, she escapes a conversion camp and hitches north, making her way through the kindness of strangers. Then she meets Lee, who is driving a pair of swans to Ohio: with the mail stopped, everyone has to be their own mail carrier, criss-crossing the Midwest to deliver or retrieve what they would have otherwise dropped in the post-a baby gift, a pension check, a crate of baby chicks, a love letter. When a gas station clerk asks Sibby and Lee to take an important message to a woman in another county, they begin to tell each other stories about the correspondents, crafting a happy queer love story, even as their own begins. But road trips are never without detours, unexpected passengers, and mechanical failures. Sibby and Lee meet a stranger at a motel who needs a ride north, and they find themselves drawn into a whole new set of adventures that complicate their mission and force them to confront their feelings and choices. Are they scabs for delivering the letter. Can a draft card be canceled. How do we know if a story is ours to tell. And if an identity is made up, is it not real. Tender, funny, and insightful, Claire Luchette's Swans. is a story of self-invention, disarming connection, little-known history, winding roads, and rewriting the future.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Claire Luchette
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2027
Format
- Buch (Hardcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 224