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-three-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.
“Our ’90s nostalgia is hella high these days, and this tender, funny story made our aging hipster hearts sing.” - Marie ClaireĪ 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. "I tore through this novel like an orphaned reader seeking a home in its ragtag yet shimmering world." - Carrie Brownstein “A thoughtful and joyous literary experience that celebrates its characters and liberally rewards its readers.” - New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice
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