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      Lone Stars

      by Justin Deabler
      Published
      Feb 2021
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      "Desperately affecting." —The New York Times

      "Generous and epic…takes us through generations of a singular family, whose loves and losses also tell us a story about America itself." —Eliot Schrefer, National Book Award finalist, author of Endangered

      Justin Deabler's Lone Stars follows the arc of four generations of a Texan family in a changing America. Julian Warner, a father at last, wrestles with a question his husband posed: what will you tell our son about the people you came from, now that they're gone? Finding the answers takes Julian back in time to Eisenhower's immigration border raids, an epistolary love affair during the Vietnam War, crumbling marriages, queer migrations to Cambridge and New York, up to the disorienting polarization of Obama's second term. And in these answers lies a hope: that by uncloseting ourselves—as immigrants, smart women, gay people—we find power in empathy.

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      LGBTQ

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      First Edition Feb 2021 St. Martin's ISBN13 9781250256102 ISBN10 1250256100
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      Feb 2021 St. Martin's ISBN13 9781250256119 ISBN10 1250256119
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      Feb 2021 St. Martin's ISBN10 B08BYC153P
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      Feb 2021 Recorded Books Inc. ISBN10 B08V8F1W5X
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