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03252aam a2200481 i 4500 001 8B04F11646CE11EDAEABB6A229ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221008010026 008 210730s2021 scu 000 0 eng d 020 $a 9781938235627 020 $a 1938235622 020 $a 1938235835 020 $a 9781938235832 035 $a (OCoLC)1262338938 040 $a JFL $b eng $e rda $c JFL $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d TLC $e rda $d SILO 041 $a eng 100 1 $a Sickels, Carter, $e Author $0 (DLC)no2012019293 245 14 $a The prettiest star / $c Carter Sickels. 250 $a paperback edition 264 1 $a Spartanburg, SC : $b Hub City Press, $c [2021] 300 $a 315 pages $c 23 cm 500 $a Paperback extras: About the author; The story behind the novel by Carter Sickels; Carter Sickels talks with Emma Copley Eisenberg; Queer homecoming: on Carter ickel's the prettiest star by Zach Shultz; Reading group guide 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a "Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it's where Brian is from, where his family is, and where he's chosen to return to die. At eighteen, Brian, like so many other promising young gay men, arrived in New York City without much more than a love for the freedom and release from his past that it promised. But within six short years, AIDS would claim his lover, his friends, and his future. With nothing left in New York but memories of death, Brian decides to write his mother a letter asking to come back to the place, and family, he was once so desperate to escape. Set in 1986, a year after Rock Hudson's death shifted the public consciousness of the epidemic and brought the news of AIDS into living rooms and kitchens across America, The Prettiest Star is part Dog Years by Mark Doty and part Tell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt. But it is also an urgent story now: it a novel about the politics and fragility of the body; it is a novel about sex and shame. And it is a novel that speaks to the question of what home and family means when we try to forge a life for ourselves in a world that can be harsh and unpredictable. It is written at the far reaches of love and understanding, and zeroes in on the moments where those two forces reach for each other, and sometimes touch."--. $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Families $0 (DLC)sh 85047009 650 0 $a Gay men $0 (DLC)sh 85061798 650 0 $a Small cities $0 (DLC)sh2007006229 650 0 $a AIDS (Disease) $0 (DLC)sh 85002541 650 0 $a Patients $0 (DLC)sh 85098709 650 0 $a Social aspects $0 (DLC)sh 85123910 650 0 $a Nineteen eighties $0 (DLC)sh 96005522 650 7 $a LGBT $2 local $0 (local)tlcaut6605335539607700 650 7 $a LGBTQ $2 local $0 (local)tlcaut6605408372299000 650 7 $a LGBTQ+ $2 local $0 (local)tlcaut6605365429994300 651 0 $a Appalachian Region $0 (DLC)sh 85006073 655 7 $a Fiction. $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Social problem fiction. $0 (OCoLC)fst01982507 $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Gay fiction. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l BJPD251 $d 20221008010813.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8B04F11646CE11EDAEABB6A229ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b QW8Initiate Another SILO Locator Search