Suburban Heathens - Lansky, Ellen
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Suburban Heathens follows the trajectory of parallel and converging catastrophes that begin with the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s and the protagonist's best friend's death, and continue with her father's struggle with heart disease, actually made worse by medical interventions witnessed by the wandering lesbian daughter who is called home to a Jewish enclave in the suburbs of Shawnee Mission, Kansas, where she grew up-halfway between the Shawnee Indian Mission and the Osawatomie State Mental Hospital. The hospital melodrama brings to light the family history of displacement and immigration,…mehr

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Suburban Heathens follows the trajectory of parallel and converging catastrophes that begin with the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s and the protagonist's best friend's death, and continue with her father's struggle with heart disease, actually made worse by medical interventions witnessed by the wandering lesbian daughter who is called home to a Jewish enclave in the suburbs of Shawnee Mission, Kansas, where she grew up-halfway between the Shawnee Indian Mission and the Osawatomie State Mental Hospital. The hospital melodrama brings to light the family history of displacement and immigration, heart disease (literal and metaphoric), cancer, death, struggle, and loss as well as recovery and regeneration as Rickie Lynn Jackson finds her relatives in Rochester, New York's famous Mount Hope Cemetery.
Autorenporträt
Ellen Lansky's essays on literature and addiction have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including Literature and Medicine and Dionysos. She has written about Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes, Paul and Jane Bowles, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Anne Porter, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, and Carson McCullers. Her most recent scholarly essay "Trashed: Women Under the Influence of Alcohol in Wright's Native Son," is forthcoming in Southern Comforts: Alcohol and Drinking in the US South (LSU Press). She has published several short stories in local, regional, and national publications. Her novella Harmonic Convergence was the runner-up in Evergreen Chronicles' first national novella contest. Her first novel, Golden Jeep, appeared in 2011. Ellen Lansky attended St. Catherine University (BA), Binghamton University (MA), and the University of Minnesota (PhD). She lives in Minneapolis and teaches literature, composition, and creative writing at Inver Hills Community College.