Until the arrival of the Garretts, Michelle is the object of relentless hostility, which only slackens because it has been redirected toward-and redoubled against-the black couple. Michelle, called Mikey by her beloved grandfather, Charlie LeBeau, is the first person of color ever to live in Deerhorn until the fall of 1974, when an African-American couple, a nurse and a substitute teacher, arrive to work in the expanding local hospital and to teach at Michelle’s school. It’s 1974 in Deerhorn,Wisconsin, where Tokyo-raised nine-year-old Michelle LeBeau has been sent to live with her father’s parents while her father, a Deerhorn native, pursues her runaway mother, a Japanese exchange student whom he met in college. It is also an aching, lonely, sure-handed portrait of small-town lesbian girlhood. Wingshooters serves as a stark corrective to lazy, cozy assumptions that racism doesn’t exist in the North the way it does in the South, or that lynching ended with the Civil Rights Movement. Named one of “Ten Titles to Pick Up Now” by O: The Oprah Magazine, Nina Revoyr’s new Lambda nominated novel is at once a breathtakingly beautiful hymn to the American outdoors-and to the bond between grandfather and granddaughter-and at the same time a chilling snapshot of race in this country. I always try to create a sense of urgency ideally the reader will be pulled along, will want to know what happens next.”

Ma“…I do believe in the importance of story, of narrative.

The age of dreaming by nina revoyr