Desert Boys

Author(s): Chris Mccormick

Fiction

Winner of the Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award


Finalist for the Binghamton University's John Gardner Fiction Book Award

Finalist for the Saroyan Prize for Fiction


Longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize


"Hilarious, Devious, Original, and Unforgettable."--Karen Russell


This series of powerful, intertwining stories illuminates Daley Kushner's world--the family, friends, and community that have both formed and constrained him, and his new life in San Francisco. Back home, the desert preys on those who cannot conform: an alfalfa farmer on the outskirts of town; two young girls whose curiosity leads to danger; a black politician who once served as his school's confederate mascot; Daley's mother, an immigrant from Armenia; and Daley himself, introspective and queer. Meanwhile, in another desert on the other side of the world, war threatens to fracture Daley's most meaningful--and most fraught--connection to home, his friendship with Robert Karinger.


A luminous debut, Desert Boys by Chris McCormick traces the development of towns into cities, of boys into men, and the haunting effects produced when the two transformations overlap. Both a bildungsroman and a portrait of a changing place, the book mines the terrain between the desire to escape and the hunger to belong.

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Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781250141019
  • : picador
  • : picador
  • : 0.46
  • : January 2018
  • : 0.75000mm X 5.00000mm X 8.25000mm
  • : April 2017
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 240
  • : 1
  • : Paperback
  • : Chris Mccormick