Brooke Skipstone (Knihy)

Brooke Skipstone Knihy

Brooke Skipstone, žijící na Aljašce, mistrně zachycuje drsnou krásu a drsnou realitu divočiny. Její psaní zkoumá cyklické rytmy přírody, od dlouhých, temných zim až po intenzivní léto, a zdůrazňuje neustálý boj o život. Skipstone se noří do hlubin aljašské krajiny, kde nebezpečí a život jsou neoddělitelně spjaty. Její díla jsou svědectvím o křehké rovnováze mezi existencí a pomíjivostí, vykreslující svět plný intenzivních pocitů a nebezpečné přitažlivosti.

The MoonStone Girls

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KIRKUS STARRED " A moving and romantic coming-out story and a triumphant celebration of lesbian liberation."GOLD MEDAL IPPY AWARD—Young Adult FictionGOLD MEDAL READERS' FAVORITE AWARD—Young Adult Coming of AgeWINNER in the 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year AwardTracy 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.