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Black Sheep Boy|Martin Pousson

Black Sheep Boy : A Novel in Stories

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Overview

Winner of the 2017 PEN Center USA Award for Fiction Meet Boo, a wild-hearted boy from the bayou land of Louisiana. Misfit, outcast, loner. Call him anything but a victim. Sissy, fairy, Jenny Woman. Son of a mixed-race Holy Ghost mother and a Cajun French phantom father. In a series of tough and tender stories, he encounters gender outlaws, drag queen renegades, and a rogues gallery of sex-starved priests, perverted teachers, and murderous bar owners. To escape his haunted history, Boo must shed his old skin and make a new self. As he does, his story rises from dark and murk, from moss and mud, to reach a new light and a new brand of fairy tale. Cajun legends, queer fantasies, and universal myths converge into a powerful work of counter-realism. Black Sheep Boy is a song of passion and a novel of defiance.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781947856066
  • ISBN-10: 1947856065
  • Publisher: Rare Bird Books, a Barnacle Book
  • Publish Date: February 2018
  • Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.55 pounds
  • Page Count: 208

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