But one drunken night, reeling from a bad breakup and a friend’s betrayal, she recklessly crosses enemy lines and hooks up with a man. Twenty-four-year-old artist Andrea Morales escaped her Midwestern Catholic childhood-and the closet-to create a home and life for herself within the thriving but insular lesbian underground of Portland, Oregon. A warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the complications of belonging-to a city, a culture, and a family-when none of them can quite contain who you really are.Īll of us were refugees of the nuclear family.
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