Full name: Black Sheep Boy: A Novel in Stories

Author: Martin Pousson Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781942600374

Meet a wild-hearted boy from the bayou land of Louisiana. Misfit, outcast, loner. Call him anything but a victim. Sissy, fairy, Jenny Woman. Son of a mixed-race Holy Ghost mother and a Cajun French phantom father. In a series of tender and tough stories, he encounters gender outlaws, drag queen renegades, and a rogues gallery of sex-starved priests, perverted teachers, and murderous bar owners. To escape his haunted history, the wild-hearted boy must shed his old skin and make a new self. As he does, his story rises from dark and murk, from moss and mud, to reach a new light and a new brand of fairy tale. Cajun legends, queer fantasies, and universal myths converge into a powerful work of counter-realism. Black Sheep Boy is a song of passion and a novel of defiance. Similar books: Take Me With You by Catherine Ryan Hyde Empire Falls by Richard Russo Anne of Windy Poplars by Lucy Maud Montgomery The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson 2666 by Roberto Bolano Buying the Farm by Kimberly Conn Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver Harbor of the Heart by Katherine Spencer We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates Everyman by Philip Roth The Book of Ruth by Jane Hamilton South of Broad by Pat Conroy Old School by Tobias Wolff The Big Free by Martha B. Boone The Risk Pool by Richard Russo Drop City by T. Coraghessan Boyle Fathers and Forefathers by Slobodan Selenic The Children Act by Ian McEwan