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Publication Date:  September 17, 2022 Format:  Kindle Genre:   LGBTQ Fiction Publisher:  Sourcebooks publishing Length:  393 pages Buy:  Kindle  |  Paperback Synopsis A group of coastal Californians battle wildfires, racism, and their own demons in five distinct narratives set in late 2019 and 2020. First Born Sons  is populated by a cast of LGBTQ+ individuals and their allies who struggle to find love, comfort, and fulfillment. As the novel progresses, characters interact across the separate narratives and are brought together for a birthday and a disastrous Black Lives Matter demonstration. A man returning to the horrors that made him leave Mississippi, a blind gay man flirting with love, an FTM transgender starting h...

  Publication Date:  January 29, 2013 Format:  paperback Genre:   Womens Fiction  Publisher:  Grand Central Publishing Length:  480  pages Buy:    Paperback  |  Audiobook  Synopsis Antonia Vega, the immigrant writer at the center of  Afterlife , has had the rug pulled out from under her. She has just retired from the college where she taught English when her beloved husband, Sam, suddenly dies. And then more jolts: her bighearted but unstable sister disappears, and Antonia returns home one evening to find a pregnant, undocumented teenager on her doorstep. Antonia has always sought direction in the literature she loves—lines from her favorite author...