To her utter shock, Andrea soon discovers she’s pregnant-and despite the concerns of her astonished circle of gay friends, she decides to have the baby.Ī decade later, when her precocious daughter Lucia starts asking questions about the father she’s never known, Andrea is forced to reconcile the past she hoped to leave behind with the life she’s worked so hard to build.Ī thoroughly modern and original anti-romantic comedy, Stray City is an unabashedly entertaining literary debut about the families we’re born into and the families we choose, about finding yourself by breaking the rules, and making bad decisions for all the right reasons. But one drunken night, reeling from a bad breakup and a friend’s betrayal, she recklessly crosses enemy lines and hooks up with a man. This ambivalence, between Andrea’s commitment to wanting the things a good lesbian. Twenty-four-year-old artist Andrea Morales escaped her Midwestern Catholic childhood-and the closet-to create a home and life for herself within the thriving but insular lesbian underground of Portland, Oregon. Into this space comes Chelsey Johnson’s much-anticipated debut novel Stray City, which tells the story of a lesbian-identified woman named Andrea who suddenly finds herself involved in a sexual gray zone with a man and with the idea of being a mother.
A warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the complications of belonging-to a city, a culture, and a family-when none of them can quite contain who you really are.Īll of us were refugees of the nuclear family. Stray City by Chelsey Johnson I met Chelsey LGBTQ 5 min read The Book Was Gayer Why do we mute queer sex on film Despite the academy’s demonstrated preference for interspecies.
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