A master of award-winning queer historical fiction, New York Times bestselling author Robin Talley brings to life an emotionally captivating story about the lives of two teen girls living in an age when just being yourself was an incredible act of bravery.It’s summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can’t be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy’s only outlet is writing secret letters in her diary to gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk…until she’s matched with a real-life pen pal who changes everything.Sharon Hawkins bonds with Tammy over punk music and carefully shared secrets, and soon their letters become the one place she can be honest. The rest of her life in San Francisco is full of lies. The kind she tells for others—like helping her gay brother hide the truth from their mom—and the kind she tells herself. But as antigay fervor in America reaches a frightening new pitch, Sharon and Tammy must rely on their long-distance friendship to discover their deeply personal truths, what they’ll stand for…and who they’ll rise against.
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Music from Another World
von Robin Talley
A master of award-winning queer historical fiction, New York Times bestselling author Robin Talley brings to life an emotionally captivating story about the lives of two teen girls living in an age when just being yourself was an incredible act of bravery.It’s summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can’t be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy’s only outlet is writing secret letters in her diary to gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk…until she’s matched with a real-life pen pal who changes everything.Sharon Hawkins bonds with Tammy over punk music and carefully shared secrets, and soon their letters become the one place she can be honest. The rest of her life in San Francisco is full of lies. The kind she tells for others—like helping her gay brother hide the truth from their mom—and the kind she tells herself. But as antigay fervor in America reaches a frightening new pitch, Sharon and Tammy must rely on their long-distance friendship to discover their deeply personal truths, what they’ll stand for…and who they’ll rise against.
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Rezension von hbicsI struggle with how to rate or explain my feelings towards this book. Which is mostly because I started reading it in April while I was still somewhat burnt out from everything that is 2020 and then didn't read it or anything else for a full three months. The two things I enjoyed the most about the novel, and are the reasons I recommend it if it sounds like your thing, are 1. the setting, which is in amidst the queer rights movement during the Harvey Milk era, and 2. is the representation of someone who assumed they were straight only because they hadn't thought about the possibility of being anything but, but through interactions with the queer community, second guesses that initial assumption and comes into their own queer identity. While it's not exactly how it worked for me, it's the closest to my journey that I've read. I found that the epistolary format made the book very hard/slow to read, and I don't know if it's because it was <I>all</I> letters (my favourite book of all time is epistolary, but there are 1st person chapters thrown in throughout), or if it was how the letters bled into a very descriptive 1st person narrative, and therefore wasn't really either, but the writing style did not work for me. My only other not-quite-qualm, more like mild disappointment, with the book, is that for how much the description espoused the San Francisco punk scene, I kind of wish there had been more of it? I loved the scenes that were in the book, but I would have been okay with at least 50 more pages to have fleshed it out a bit more. All in all it made for a reading experience that for me was 'fine' but nothing special. Thank you to Inkyard Press for granting me an advance reader copy of this through netgalley. Apologies that 2020 threw a wrench in me reading this in a timely matter.