Lewiston/Clarkston - Paperback

by Samuel D. Hunter (Author)

LEWISTON:

Alice and Connor sit by their roadside stand selling cheap fireworks while developers swallow the land around them. Promised a condo in the new development their future is secure. Enter Marnie Alice's long-lost granddaughter proposing to buy the land to save her family's legacy. Marnie and Alice will become reacquainted with each other's deeply held secrets uncertain pasts and hopeful futures. Hunter a 2014 MacArthur Fellowship recipient explores the emotional frontiers of a family struggling to make a home in the vastness of the American landscape with affection poignancy and a profound sense of empathy.

CLARKSTON:

Jake meets Chris when they are assigned to the same night shift at Costco in Clarkston Washington. Chris has a hard life; his mom is a meth addict and living in Clarkston has forced him down a dead-end road. He has promise but he's "stuck." Jake went to a liberal arts school is gay and out but fled his Connecticut town when he was diagnosed with a fatal illness. Wanting to see the ocean he came to Clarkston but was sidetracked by his illness. He and Chris form an awkward bond: both are gay but have led completely different lives. Can they learn to help each other?