EPISODE · Mar 20, 2018 · 5 MIN
Stray City: A Novel by Chelsey Johnson
from Audiobooks in Fiction, Coming of Age · host Brook Bednar
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325628 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Stray City: A Novel Author: Chelsey Johnson Narrator: Natalie Moore Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 23 minutes Release date: March 20, 2018 Genres: Drama Publisher's Summary: A warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the complications of belonging—to a city, a culture, and a family—when none of them can quite contain who you really are. All of us were refugees of the nuclear family . . . Twenty-four-year-old artist Andrea Morales escaped her Midwestern Catholic childhood—and the closet—to create a home and life for herself within the thriving but insular lesbian underground of Portland, Oregon. But one drunken night, reeling from a bad breakup and a friend’s betrayal, she recklessly crosses enemy lines and hooks up with a man. To her utter shock, Andrea soon discovers she’s pregnant—and despite the concerns of her astonished circle of gay friends, she decides to have the baby. A decade later, when her precocious daughter Lucia starts asking questions about the father she’s never known, Andrea is forced to reconcile the past she hoped to leave behind with the life she’s worked so hard to build. A thoroughly modern and original anti-romantic comedy, Stray City is an unabashedly entertaining literary debut about the families we’re born into and the families we choose, about finding yourself by breaking the rules, and making bad decisions for all the right reasons.
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