Let’s Play Two celebrates baseball in American life and poetry. From its opening poem “I Want to Be Married at Home Plate” to the final, title poem, “Let’s Play Two” Peter Gordon explores how baseball brings families together and celebrates the skill of our favorite players. Order here.
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Hatred of the “different” did not begin in Orlando in June 2016. Love and acceptance was not invented here, either, although it has blossomed in astonishing ways after the tragedy at Pulse. This story, written by a friend who knows the struggle first-hand, was finished long before the murders, and my hope is that it will keep the conversation about tolerance and inclusion alive for readers across America and the world.
Here is your Scribbler’s review:
“It’s Not Like I Knew Her is not just a coming-out story; it’s a coming-home story. The protagonist, Jodie Taylor, is an outcast, based not only on her sexual orientation, but also on familial circumstances and poverty issues. Set in rural north Florida and racially charged Selma, Alabama in the turbulent 1950s, the book reveals the ever-present dangers of being “peculiar” in a world ruled by white males. Jodie learns just how fraught with peril life as a lesbian can be, but she also learns the value of self-respect and finds the courage to build a new life for herself while coming to terms with her past.
The novel is of exceptional merit relating to the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender experience because it not only reflects the challenges of that experience through the life of Jodie Taylor, but also the closeness of the community through her various love interests, friends, and a particularly compelling mentor couple. These are characters that readers of all stripes – gay, straight, or questioning – can relate to, admire, enjoy, and learn from. They dwell in the mind of readers long after the last page is turned, based on their fragile, flawed, fully-wrought humanity.”
Author Pat Spears tells us why she wrote the book.
In her memoir, A Million Fragile Bones, Connie May Fowler details the beauty and peace she found on Alligator Point after years of heartbreak and loss, and the devastation and upheaval that followed the Deepwater Horizon (BP) oil spill. It is, at it’s heart, a love song to the natural world and a cry of anger and grief at its ruin for the sake of corporate profits.
It is also a cautionary tale – a clear-eyed look at the real cost of our seemingly insatiable appetite for fossil fuel. As the memoir points out, we will continue to abuse the natural world at our peril.
Twisted Road Publications is proud to announce that they will release A Million Fragile Bones in April 2017.
