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Winner of the 2017 PEN Center USA Award for Fiction Meet Boo, 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 tough and tender 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, Boo 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.… (plus d'informations)
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In response to Le rand Derangement, ther mass exile and exodus from L'Cadie by the British, the Acadians began to sing sad songs of upheaval and loss but also strange songs of frogs and other creatures. These songs confused Les Americains, and that was part of the point. -Beausoleil anard, Canjuns: Three Countries, Two Continents, & One Weird Trunk
"Saute, crapaud, ta queue va bru;er / Mais prends courage, elleva repousser!"
"Jump frog, your tail will burn; / But take heart, it will return." -"Saute Crepaud" by Columbus "Boy" Fruge
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At the end of the long, hot day, the wires snapped overjead, the power dropped in the house, and the air conditioner died again. -Foreward, Night Song
Under the fluorescent glare of the kitchen, Mama sang a gospel tune and shelved groceries to an imaginary beat. -Chapter 1, Revival Girl
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Winner of the 2017 PEN Center USA Award for Fiction Meet Boo, 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 tough and tender 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, Boo 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.
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