Skylar Lyralen Kaye

Leaving Winter for a Desert Sky (eBook, ePUB)

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A reluctant prodigal daughter returns to her dysfunctional family in Kaye's debut literary novel.

Erin has spent the last six years abroad, teaching English in Spain, France, Japan. Now, she's back home in Maine for Christmas, for the first time in years. Her abusive father, Thomas, made it clear that Erin, a lesbian, was not welcome in the house, but her mother, Janet, recently ended the marriage, then invited Erin to come home for the holiday. "Just us three girls," says Janet, including Erin's younger sister, sixth grader Beththough Thomas tends to show up at night drunk and sit in his car in front of the house. Erin bickers with Janet even as she helps her mother get on her feetsetting her up a bank account, making her a resume to apply for jobsbut when it becomes clear her father is trying to reconcile, Erinwho isn't ready to forgiveleaves for Mexico. She takes a bus to Arizona, where her drinking and her guilt over abandoning Beth get the better of her. She stops in Tucson to attend some Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. With the help of her no-nonsense sponsor, Maggie, Erin attempts to make sense of her life up to this point, beginning with the tumult of her parents' marriage. As Janet plans to come down to Tucson to visit her, Erin must consider the possibility that she didn't have one abusive parent, but two. Kaye captures Erin's complex emotional journey with elegant, salt-of-the-earth economy. "They have a saying about people who keep running away," Janet tells Erin at one point. "Things catch up with you sooner or later." While many aspects of Erin's situation and her reactions to itsubstance abuse, sabotaged love, solo travel, motorcyclesmay strike the reader as slightly predictable, Kaye fashions her in such a way that she feels like an individual rather than a cliche. It's a breezy read despite the dark subject matter, and the reader quickly gets swept up in Erin's redemptive saga.

A raw, emotional novel of recovery and familial reckoning.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Skylar Lyralen Kaye
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798230333746
• Artikelnr.: 72739202

Autorenporträt

Skylar Lyralen Kaye, fae/they is a queer social justice and award-winning writer as well as a lifelong activist. They have a BA in English from the University of Arizona and an MFA in Theater from Sarah Lawrence College. Kaye was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in Fiction in 1997 and was a finalist for the 2005 Massachusetts Cultural Council of the Arts Awards in Playwriting. They have published in literary journals such as Calyx, Persona, Phoebe, Girlfriends, Happy Magazine and the anthology Out of the Ordinary, Children of LGT Parents as well has having multiple theatrical productions of their plays. Their most recent awards include the 2021 NE Film Star Award as well as 12 film festival awards for the web series . In 2018 they won Best in Fringe at the San Francisco Fringe for the one person show My Preferred Pronoun Is We (AKA Many Trump Refugees in One Body), in 2017 the Moth Story Slam and 2018 the Boston Story Slam. Some other awards include: the 2015 Meryl Streep Writers Lab for Screenwriters and the 2002 Stanley and Eleanor Lipkin Prize in Playwriting.