{"product_id":"dreaming-home-paperback","title":"Dreaming Home - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLucian Childs\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the 2024 Fred Kerner Book Award - \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the 2024 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize - \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e Best Spring Book - One of \u003cem\u003eLambda Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e's Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Books of June 2023 - A \u003cem\u003eSouthern Review\u003c\/em\u003e Book to Celebrate in June 2023 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e- A \u003cem\u003e49th Shelf\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2023\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA queer coming-of-age--and coming-to-terms--follows the after-effects of betrayal and poignantly explores the ways we search for home.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a sister's casual act of betrayal awakens their father's demons--ones spawned by his time in Vietnamese POW camps--the effects of the ensuing violence against her brother ripple out over the course of forty years, from Lubbock, to San Francisco, to Fort Lauderdale. Swept up in this arc, the members of this family and their loved ones tell their tales. A queer coming-of-age, and coming-to-terms, and a poignant exploration of all the ways we search for home, \u003cem\u003eDreaming Home\u003c\/em\u003e is the unforgettable story of the fragmenting of an American family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLucian Childs\u003c\/strong\u003e is a fiction writer living in Toronto, Ontario. His debut novel-in-stories, \u003cem\u003eDreaming Home\u003c\/em\u003e (Biblioasis 2023), was the winner of the Fred Kerner Book Award and was shortlisted for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in literary fiction. He was a Peter Taylor Fellow at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, a recipient of the Rasmuson Foundation Individual Artist Project Award and a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom Short Story Award. He is a contributing editor of Lambda Literary Award finalist, \u003cem\u003eBuilding Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. His stories and book reviews have appeared in the literary journals \u003cem\u003eGrain\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePlenitude\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e The Ex-Puritan\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePrairie Fire\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. For more about his work, please visit www.lucianchilds.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 06, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53098629562592,"sku":"9781771965491","price":18.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/mJ8kb07EBR9781771965491.webp?v=1781696201","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/dreaming-home-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}