Some Strange Music Draws Me In A Novel
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25.04.2025
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W. W. Norton & CompanySeitenzahl
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Englisch
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9781324050803
One of Lit Hub's 38 Favorite Books of 2024 One of Autostraddle's Best Books of 2024 From an award-winning author, this provocative novel tells an emotionally gripping story about friendship, family, and transgender awakening in a working-class American town.
It's the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger inspires Mel's dawning self-awareness. But Sylvia's presence sparks fury among her neighbors and throws Mel into conflict with her mother and best friend. Decades later, in 2019, Max (formerly Mel) is on probation from his teaching job for, ironically, defying speech codes around trans identity. Back in Swaffham, he must navigate life as part of a fractured family and face his own role in the disasters of the past.
Populated by a cast of unforgettable characters, Some Strange Music Draws Me In is a propulsive page turner about multiple electrifying relationshipsbetween a working-class mother and her queer child, between a trans man and his right-wing sister, and between a teenager and her troubled best friend. Griffin Hansbury, in elegant, arresting, and fearless prose, dares to explore taboos around gender and class as he offers a deeply moving portrait of friendship, family, and a girlhood lived sideways. A timely and captivating narrative of self-realization amid the everyday violence of small-town intolerance, Some Strange Music Draws Me In builds to an explosive conclusion, illuminating the unexpected ways that difference can provide a ticket to liberation.Noch keine Bewertungen vorhanden
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Man now I really wanna listen to Patti Smith...
In this novel the main character reflects on his life as a 13 year old obvlivous teenager in the summer of 1984. Max, at this time still identifying as Mel, meets a trans woman for the first time, who will change his life forever. He delves into queerness and is so drawn to Sylvia, her boldness, her fearlessness and her strange music taste. But because it is a tiny redneck town in the 80s, of course shit is gonna go down... There's another POV of him now in 2019, in his almost 50s, fully transitioned and returning to his hometown. The POV change is so interesting to read. It is interesting to see how much queerness and transness have socially changed. The author does a fantastic job of painting this fully fleshed out character, at portraying not only queerness but also poverty. I was genuienly enthralled with this book.
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