| Half-Moon Scar Revised Edition Contributor(s): Green, Allison (Author) |
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ISBN: 0312282532 ISBN-13: 9780312282530 Publisher: Stonewall Inn Editions OUR PRICE: $17.09 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2001 Annotation: Amy, a lesbian in her thirties, has established an academic career and a relationship in a city far from her small Midwestern hometown. After years of having no contact with her old friends, Amy discovers that her high school crush, Gina, is still living in Willow Bay, which prompts her to finally go back for a visit. But whens he arrives, Amy finds childhood pal Gavin, a gay man who is living with Gina, suffering from anorexia; Gina herself is moodily detached from life and relationships. Meanwhile, Amy's youthful vice of self-mutilation has never been resolved, and the reunion forces all three to examine the shame they experienced as gay adolescents. When her complicated past with both of them starts to creep into the present, Amy is faced with making some tough decisions about her own life. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Stonewall Inn Editions (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 4.98" W x 7.95" (0.55 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Small Town - Sex & Gender - Lesbian - Topical - Friendship |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Allison Green's Half-Moon Scar is an edgy novel about three childhood friends who reunite as adults to discover and heal each others' emotional wounds. Amy is a thirtysomething lesbian who escaped her small, Midwestern hometown of Willow Bay, Wisconsin, to pursue an academic career and establish a life with her lover. After years away from Willow Bay, she returns to visit the people she's left behind--only to discover that her old friends Gina and Gavin have learned to dissociate from their pasts in extreme ways that rival her own. Amy's tendency toward self-mutilation parallels both Gavin's anorexia and Gina's moody detachment from life, and Amy soon begins to fear for Gavin's life while becoming more and more bewildered by Gina's behavior. As past and present collide and the visit extends far beyond its intended length, as the reunion forces all three to examine the shame and guilt they experienced as gay adolescents. Amy finds that she must reconcile the tense relationship with her family and her long-standing attraction to Gina, as well as her past romantic experimentation with Gavin. Together, Amy, Gina, and Gavin examine the scars--both emotional and physical, visible and invisible--that pervade their still-unresolved lives. |
Contributor Bio(s): Green, Allison: - Allison Green teaches writing and women's studies at a community college in Washington State. Half-Moon Scar is her first novel. |
