Summer Fun, Jeanne Thornton
Summer Fun, Jeanne Thornton
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Summer Fun

Author: Jeanne Thornton

Narrator: Jeanne Thornton

Unabridged: 14 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/03/2021


Synopsis

From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and trans identity

Gala, a young trans woman, works at a hostel in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. She is obsessed with the Get Happies, the quintessential 1960s Californian band, helmed by its resident genius, B—-. Why did the band stop making music? Why did they never release their rumored album, Summer Fun?

Gala writes letters to B—- that shed light not only on the Get Happies, but paint an extraordinary portrait of Gala. The parallel narratives of B—- and Gala form a dialogue bout creation—of music, identity, self, culture, and counterculture.

Summer Fun is a brilliant and magical work of trans literature that marks Thornton as one of our most exciting and original novelists.

About Jeanne Thornton

Jeanne Thornton is the author of the novel The Dream of Doctor Bantam and the collection The Black Emerald, both shortlisted for the Lambda Literary award. She is also copublisher of the independent press Instar Books and the writer and illustrator of the webcomics Bad Mother and The Man Who Hates Fun. She is a 2015 Lambda Literary Fellow in fiction and has been published in Wired, n+1, and the Evergreen Review.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeanne on January 07, 2020

i'm surprised this is up this soon, but sure yeah i thought this was okay......more

Goodreads review by Mai on July 26, 2024

Pride Month My review has less to do with the subject matter, and more of how it was laid out. Epistolary novels have always been difficult for me to digest. To the filmmakers that somehow turn these into solid movies, kudos. If this book were only about Gala, I would've rated it far higher. I was ve......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on August 25, 2021

As a long time Get Happies fan, I was so pleased to read this new biography by Jeanne Thornton. Wow!......more

Goodreads review by BJ on January 19, 2025

When I was in the fourth grade, my parents got me a CD player for my birthday. That day, I went downstairs and picked out my favorite of the CDs my parents had in rotation, back in the 90s. It was two Beach Boys albums on one disc, both from that wondrous year in music history, 1965: The Beach Boys......more

Goodreads review by Erik on June 25, 2021

Jeanne Thornton's Summer Fun is the trans fiction I have been waiting to read, and I am so glad it is here. Gala is a trans woman living in the New Mexico desert who finds herself with a trans friend, Ronda, who she doesn't really want to be friends with, and a girlfriend, Caroline, who can't quite s......more