{"product_id":"summer-fun-by-jeanne-thornton-1","title":"Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and trans identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGala, a young trans woman, works at a hostel in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. She is obsessed with the Get Happies, the quintessential 1960s Californian band, helmed by its resident genius, B----. Gala needs to know: Why did the band stop making music? Why did they never release their rumored album, \u003ci\u003eSummer Fun\u003c\/i\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd so she writes letters to B---- that shed light not only on the Get Happies, but paint an extraordinary portrait of Gala. The parallel narratives of B---- and Gala form a dialogue about creation--of music, identity, self, culture, and counterculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer Fun\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant and magical work of trans literature that marks Thornton as one of our most exciting and original novelists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"I anticipated the release of Summer Fun for six years, and now that I finally got to read it, its characters and story will linger with me much longer than that. I suspect it will come to be considered the Pet Sounds of trans literature: a masterpiece that feels both astonishingly new and comfortingly familiar.\"\u003c\/em\u003e -Torrey Peters, author of \u003ci\u003eDetransition, Baby\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"There is no way to prepare for Summer Fun; we can only submit to Thornton's surreal, captivating and startlingly sui generis world. Summer Fun is a fully realized vision so strange and compelling that even in writing this blurb I still can't quite shake the sensation of having genuinely known these characters, if only for a short and magical while.\"\u003c\/em\u003e -Jordy Rosenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eConfessions of the Fox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A beautiful, mesmerizing volcano of a novel that elegantly vibrates with the intimate weight of decades. Thornton's prose is driving, joyous, and steeped with a grace reminiscent of Marilynne Robinson. It all builds to an ending that is no less than perfect. This book made me cry.\"\u003c\/em\u003e -Casey Plett, author of \u003ci\u003eLittle Fish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback \/ 400 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43000750407895,"sku":"","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/products\/9781911585947.jpg?v=1657795947","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/summer-fun-by-jeanne-thornton-1","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}