A Library Journal Key Indie Fiction Title, Fall 2014 A BBC.com Book to Read for October, 2014 Meet Xavier Boland, the untouchable cross-dresser, who walks loose and carefree as an old Broadway tune. Meet Miss Penrice, a lost old woman forced by wartime to parent a child for the first time. Meet a Zamboni mechanic turned funeral porteur, Madame Poirer's lapdog (and its chastity belt), a congregation of hard-singing, sex-obsessed Pentecostals, and more. With The Freedom in American Songs, Kathleen Winter brings her unusual sensuality, lyrically rendered settings, and subversive humour to bear on a new story collection about modern loneliness, small-town gay teens, catastrophic love, and the holiness of ordinary life. Praise for Kathleen Winter "Utterly original."—O, The Oprah Magazine "Absorbing, earnest. . . . Beautifully written."—The New York Times Book Review "Her lyrical voice and her crystalline...
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A Library Journal Key Indie Fiction Title, Fall 2014
A BBC.com Book to Read for October, 2014
Meet Xavier Boland, the untouchable cross-dresser, who walks loose and carefree as an old Broadway tune. Meet Miss Penrice, a lost old woman forced by wartime to parent a child for the first time. Meet a Zamboni mechanic turned funeral porteur, Madame Poirer's lapdog (and its chastity belt), a congregation of hard-singing, sex-obsessed Pentecostals, and more. With The Freedom in American Songs, Kathleen Winter brings her unusual sensuality, lyrically rendered settings, and subversive humour to bear on a new story collection about modern loneliness, small-town gay teens, catastrophic love, and the holiness of ordinary life.
Praise for Kathleen Winter
"Utterly original."—O, The Oprah Magazine
"Absorbing, earnest. . . . Beautifully written."—The New York Times Book Review
"Her lyrical voice and her crystalline...