Product Description: Maura Ostryder is coming into her own, professionally and privately, as she begins her fifty-first year.  Maura has always been the master of her own life and has reared her son, Kai, to be the same.  Unfortunately life--and especially motherhood--hasn't been as easily managed as Maura would have planned after she became pregnant...read more

Product Description: The acclaimed novel, now in paperback. In rich, lyrical prose, Jay Quinn tells of a family reunion over one weekend, as two sons come to terms with their parents’ declining health.Jay Quinn is also the author of Back Where He Started, The Good Neighbor, and The Boomerang Kid.

Product Description: “A gorgeous celebration of love and family, a vivid re-imagining of what it means to be a parent, an anthem of endurance through faith, a hard-won comedy of healing and balm.”—Paul Russell, author of War Against the Animals and The Coming StormAs he embraces the patchwork of his new life, a middle-aged gay man living in a North Carolina beach town comes to terms with the sudden departure of his lover and earns a new appreciation of his role as heart of the home to his grown children...read more

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Product Description: In this unusual coming-of-age novel, author Jay Quinn surveys the expanding emotional and sexual boundaries of Matt, an eighteen-year-old surfer in coastal North Carolina. Set against the broad skies and beaches of North Carolina's Outer Banks, Matt's story of claiming his place as a surfer and as a gay man in the small and large worlds of construction sites, fishing piers, and surf breaks, is a triumph of storytelling...read more

Product Description: Fiction. LGBT Studies. Written from the broad perspectives of gay Southern writers, Rebel Yell: Stories by Contemporary Southern Gay Authors, dismantles and demystifies stereotypes, and presents fourteen individual narbatives about the experience of living as a gay man in Southern society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Examine a moving, personal narrative about growing up gay in the south!Students, teachers, and anyone interested in gay studies and experiences will find that The Mentor: A Memoir of Friendship and Gay Identity (a 2001 Lambda Literary Foundation Gay Male Biography/Autobiography Award finalist) delivers a captivating and honest look into the challenges of growing up gay through the context of firsthand experiences, revelations, and realizations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)