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.

Author Bio

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.

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