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Title :

Lone stars / Justin Deabler.

Title:

Lone stars

Author:

Deabler, Justin

Format:

Books

Physical Description:

294 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

ISBN:

9781250256102

Production / Publication Information:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.

Summary:

""Generous and epic....[Deabler's] Lone Stars takes us through generations of a singular family, whose loves and losses also tell us a story about America itself..." Lone Stars follows the arc of four generations of a Texan family in a changing America. Julian Warner, a father at last, wrestles with a question his husband posed: what will you tell our son about the people you came from, now that they're gone? Finding the answers takes Julian back in time to Eisenhower's immigration border raids, an epistolary love affair during the Vietnam War, crumbling marriages, queer migrations to Cambridge and New York, up to the disorienting polarization of Obama's second term. And in these answers lies a hope: that by uncloseting ourselves--as immigrants, smart women, gay people--we find power in empathy"--

Language:

English

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Geographic Term:

Texas -- Fiction.

Subject Term:

Gay men -- Fiction.

Families -- Texas -- Fiction.

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

Material Type	Library	Call Number	Item Barcode	Location
Book	Searching... Amesbury Public Library	FIC DEABLER	32114002616077	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Chelmsford Public Library	FIC/DEABLER	31480011437404	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Haverhill Public Library	FIC/DEABLER J	31479007433500	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Lawrence Public Library	FIC DEA	31549004830963	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Lowell - Pollard Memorial Library	FIC DEABLER	31481005509489	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Methuen - Nevins Memorial Library	FIC DEA	31548003311066	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Newbury Town Library	DEA	32127001269391	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Newburyport Public Library	FIC DEABLER J	32128003896033	Searching... Unknown
Book	Searching... Tewksbury Public Library	FICTION DEABLER	32132003238667	Searching... Unknown

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Summary

"Desperately affecting." -- The New York Times

" Generous and epic...takes us through generations of a singular family, whose loves and losses also tell us a story about America itself." -- Eliot Schrefer, National Book Award finalist, author of Endangered

Justin Deabler's Lone Stars follows the arc of four generations of a Texan family in a changing America. Julian Warner, a father at last, wrestles with a question his husband posed: what will you tell our son about the people you came from, now that they're gone? Finding the answers takes Julian back in time to Eisenhower's immigration border raids, an epistolary love affair during the Vietnam War, crumbling marriages, queer migrations to Cambridge and New York, up to the disorienting polarization of Obama's second term. And in these answers lies a hope: that by uncloseting ourselves--as immigrants, smart women, gay people--we find power in empathy.

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In Deabler's bighearted debut, a gay man looks back on his family's history to understand how his heritage and identity are woven by his home state of Texas. Julian Warner begins his story with Eisenhower's anti-immigration border raids in the 1950s, as seen through the eyes of his mother, impressionable, young Lacy Adams. In 1969 Lacy meets Aaron Warner, a soldier serving in Vietnam, whom she later marries. They have a son, the precocious Julian, and Aaron, unable to keep a job for more than six months at a time, takes a succession of lovers. Julian comes out to Lacy after a gay high school classmate is assaulted, motivating Lacy to become a gay rights activist. Julian goes off to Harvard and later moves to Brooklyn, embarking on a legal career and a marriage, before a final reckoning with his Texas roots involves surprises from both his parents' sides of the family. Deabler's layered if at times chockablock story of gay rights, immigrants' rights, and the financial crisis of 2008--Julian's husband quits his finance job over a crisis of conscience--makes good use of the general messiness of family ties and the longing to extend one's line into an uncertain future. In the end, this novel proudly and emotionally defines what it means to be from the Lone Star State. (Feb.)

Library Journal Review

When his husband asks Julian Warner what he'll tell their son about his family, Julian recalls four generations of Texans in a story moving from Eisenhower's immigration border raids and love during the Vietnam War to gays emerging from the closet and traveling to Cambridge and New York. From the General Counsel at Queens Public Library.