{"product_id":"dreaming-home-9781771965491","title":"Dreaming Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize - Shortlisted for the 2024 Fred Kerner Book Award - \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e Best Spring Book - One of \u003cem\u003eLambda Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e's Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of June 2023 - A \u003cem\u003eSouthern Review\u003c\/em\u003e Book to Celebrate in June 2023 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- A \u003cem\u003e49th Shelf\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA queer coming-of-age--and coming-to-terms--follows the after-effects of betrayal and poignantly explores the ways we search for home.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a sister's casual act of betrayal awakens their father's demons--ones spawned by his time in Vietnamese POW camps--the effects of the ensuing violence against her brother ripple out over the course of forty years, from Lubbock, to San Francisco, to Fort Lauderdale. Swept up in this arc, the members of this family and their loved ones tell their tales. A queer coming-of-age, and coming-to-terms, and a poignant exploration of all the ways we search for home, \u003cem\u003eDreaming Home\u003c\/em\u003e is the unforgettable story of the fragmenting of an American family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLucian Childs\u003c\/b\u003e is a fiction writer, a Peter Taylor Fellow for Nancy Zafris at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, a recipient of the Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Project Award and a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Short Story Award. He has been an artist-in-residence at Byrdcliffe Art Colony and at Artscape Gibraltar Point. Lucian is a co-editor of 2017 Lambda Literary finalist, \u003ci\u003eBuilding Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eGrain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Puritan\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eQuiddity \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePrairie Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. Lucian currently lives in Toronto.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50453702017298,"sku":"9781771965491","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6d1e3029-f675-47b0-9791-dda69180a0a3.jpg?v=1729854016","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dreaming-home-9781771965491","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}