These Heathens!: A Novel - Couverture rigide

McKenzie, Mia

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0593596943 ISBN 13 : 9780593596944

Editeur : Random House, 2025

Synopsis

In this vibrant, gratifying novel, a pious, small-town teenager travels to Atlanta to get an abortion and finds herself smack in the middle of the civil rights movement and the secret lives of queer Black people.

It was the weekend that changed everything. . . .

Where do you get an abortion in 1960 Georgia, especially if the town midwife goes to the same church as your parents? For seventeen-year-old Doris Steele, the answer is Atlanta, where her favorite teacher, Mrs. Lucas, calls upon her brash, wealthy childhood best friend, Sylvia, for help. While waiting to hear from the doctor who has agreed to do the procedure, Doris spends the weekend scandalized by, but drawn to, the people who move in and out of Sylvia's orbit: celebrities whom Doris has seen in the pages of Jet and Ebony, political leaders like Coretta Scott King and Diane Nash, women who dance close together, atheists! And even more shocking? Mrs. Lucas seems right at home.

The young people Doris encounters are no less surprising. When he's not flirting too hard or talking too much, Sylvia’s nephew, Dexter, brings Doris into the heart of Atlanta’s civil rights movement, where some activists practice nonviolence to prepare for sit-ins, while others carry guns to protect Black families from the Klan.

From the guests at a queer kickback to the student activists at a SNCC conference, Doris suddenly finds herself surrounded by so many people who seem to know exactly who or what they want. Doris knows she doesn’t want a baby, but what does she want? Will this trip help her find out?

These Heathens! is a funny, poignant story about Black women’s obligations and ambitions, what we owe to ourselves, and the transformative power of leaving your bubble, even for just one chaotic weekend.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Mia McKenzie is the two-time Lambda Award-winning author of The Summer We Got Free and Skye Falling, and the creator of Black Girl Dangerous Media, an independent media and education project that centers queer Black women and girls. She lives with her two children in the Happy Valley of Western Massachusetts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Random House
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0593596943
• ISBN 13: 9780593596944
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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