The MoonStone Girls

Description

KIRKUS STARRED REVIEW: "A moving and romantic coming-out story and a triumphant celebration of lesbian liberation."

GOLD MEDAL IPPY Award-Young Adult Fiction

WINNER in the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award

GOLD MEDAL READERS FAVORITE Award-Young Adult Coming of Age

Tracy should have been a boy. Even her older brother Spencer says so, though he wouldn't finish the thought with, "And I should have been a girl."

Though both feel awkward in their own skin, they have to face who they are-queers in the late 60s.

When both are caught with gay partners, their lives and futures are endangered by their homophobic father as their mother struggles to defend them.

While the Vietnam War threatens to take Spencer away, Tracy and her father wage a war of their own, each trying to save the sweet, talented pianist.

At seventeen, Tracy dresses as a boy and leaves her parents in turmoil, with only the slimmest hope of finding peace within herself. She journeys to a girl with a guitar, calling to her from a photo, "Come to Alaska. We'd be great friends."

Maybe even The MoonStone Girls.

Product Details

Price

$14.99

Publisher

Skipstone Learning

Publish Date

February 10, 2022

Pages

338

Dimensions

6.0 X 9.0 X 0.76 inches | 1.09 pounds

Language

English

Type

Paperback

EAN/UPC

9781737006442

BISAC Categories:

LGBT

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About the Author

Brooke Skipstone is a multi-award winning author who lives in Alaska where she watches the mountains change colors with the seasons from her balcony. Where she feels the constant rush toward winter as the sunlight wanes for six months of the year, seven minutes each day, bringing crushing cold that lingers even as the sun climbs again. Where the burst of life during summer is urgent under twenty-four-hour daylight, lush and decadent. Where fish swim hundreds of miles up rivers past bear claws and nets and wheels and lines of rubber-clad combat fishers, arriving humped and ragged, dying as they spawn. Where danger from the land and its animals exhilarates the senses, forcing her to appreciate the difference between life and death. Where the edge between is sometimes too alluring. Some Laneys Died is her second novel. Her first was Someone To Kiss My Scars, also available in French (Embrasser Mes Blessures) and Spanish (Alguien Que Bese Mis Heridas).

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