Choosing Grace - Couverture souple

Jamison, Regina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1642472263 ISBN 13 : 9781642472264

Editeur : Bella Books, 2021

Synopsis

As a young African American woman from Durham, North Carolina, Sky Valentine is tired of being boxed in by small minds and Southern expectations. To escape the restraints of her Southern upbringing, Sky flees to Rhode Island to attend college. Once there, Sky doesn't just work on her degree, she also works on shedding many of the things that peg her as a Southerner.

Sky also falls head over heels with the sexy and vibrant Zenobia, solidifying what she had felt in her heart all along--that she loves women. But their affair is brief and interrupted by Zenobia's sudden departure from school.

With college completed, Sky returns home to find that her domineering mother has promised her hand in marriage to a rich and arrogant man. But it's 1986, and Sky is determined to live her own life. So she gathers her courage and flees to New York City, where she lands a teaching job and an apartment.

In time Sky meets Grace Webster and it's love at first sight. But then Zenobia comes back into Sky's life and Sky is faced with an impossible choice--finish what she started with Zenobia years ago, or fight for the relationship she is building with Grace. What will she choose?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Regina Jamison has enjoyed the magic of paper and pencils and stories from a very young age, but she began taking a career in writing seriously after watching an episode of her favorite nighttime television series, Family, in which her favorite character, Buddy Lawrence--played by the actress Kristy McNichol--posed the question: How will you leave your mark upon the world? Regina decided she would leave her mark on the world via her writing and earnestly began writing stories and poetry.

At the age of twelve, Regina's poem, "Being Myself" won first place in the New York City Citywide Poetry Competition in the sixth-grade division. Years later, in the first issue of a small zine called Clamour created by Renee Gladman, Regina's poem "Bin Around" was published. This marked her first publication in a varied list of publications.

Regina's poetry has appeared in print in the following magazines and/or journals: Off the Rocks: An Anthology of GLBT Writing Vol 14 & Vol 15, Sinister Wisdom: Black Lesbians We are the Revolution, Five 2 One, Promethean, Poetry in Performance 43, and Magma Poetry: Deaf Issue.

Online her poetry has appeared in the following: Indolent Press: HIV Here & Now Series, Silver Birch Press: Me as a Child Series, Promethean eZine, The Lake Poetry: December 2017, Switch Grass Review, and Mom Egg Review: Grief and Loss. She has poetry coming soon in the BAM anthology 42 Stories.

Regina's fiction has appeared in Zane's Purple Panties: Black Lesbian Anthology, Lambda Literary Anthology: Gaslight, and Girls Who Bite: Vampire Lesbian Anthology.

Regina is a 2014 Lambda Literary Fellow and a residency recipient at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild. She was a featured reader at Calypso Muse Poetry and Fiction Workshop and at Women Writers in Bloom. She received her MFA from City College in New York.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bella Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1642472263
• ISBN 13: 9781642472264
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 268
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible