{"id":58176,"date":"2019-05-25T19:44:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-25T19:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58176"},"modified":"2019-06-01T22:43:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-01T22:43:35","slug":"black-sheep-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58176","title":{"rendered":"Black Sheep Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rarebirdbooks.com\/products\/black-sheep-boy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Black Sheep Boy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rarebirdbooks.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rare Bird Books<\/a><br \/>\n2016<br \/>\n208 pages<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN-13: 978-1942600374<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN-13: 978-1947856066<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinpousson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Martin Pousson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rarebirdbooks.com\/products\/black-sheep-boy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload--fade-in cloudzoom featured_image lazyautosizes lazyloaded\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_2048x.png?v=1530215720\" sizes=\"300px\" srcset=\" \/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_2048x.png?v=1530215720 2048w, \/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_1900x.png?v=1530215720 1900w, \/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_1600x.png?v=1530215720 1600w, \/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_1200x.png?v=1530215720 1200w, \/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_1000x.png?v=1530215720 1000w, \/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_800x.png?v=1530215720 800w, \/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_600x.png?v=1530215720 600w, \/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_400x.png?v=1530215720 400w\" alt=\"Black Sheep Boy\" width=\"300\" data-src=\"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_2048x.png?v=1530215720\" data-index=\"0\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\" \/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_2048x.png?v=1530215720 2048w, \/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_1900x.png?v=1530215720 1900w, \/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_1600x.png?v=1530215720 1600w, \/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_1200x.png?v=1530215720 1200w, \/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_1000x.png?v=1530215720 1000w, \/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_800x.png?v=1530215720 800w, \/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_600x.png?v=1530215720 600w, \/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_400x.png?v=1530215720 400w\" data-cloudzoom=\"zoomImage: '\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0134\/3432\/3001\/products\/Black_Sheep_Boy_papberback_3D_crop_2048x.png?v=1530215720', tintColor: '#ffffff', zoomPosition: 'inside', zoomOffsetX: 0, touchStartDelay: 250, lazyLoadZoom: true\" data-image-id=\"4340861337657\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>PEN Center USA Fiction Award Winner<\/li>\n<li>National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Winner<\/li>\n<li>Simpson Family Literary Prize Finalist<\/li>\n<li><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> Literary Pick<\/li>\n<li>NPR: <em>The Reading Life<\/em> Featured Book<\/li>\n<li><em>The Millions<\/em> Best Summer Horror Selection<\/li>\n<li><em>Book Riot<\/em> Must-Read Indie Press Book<\/li>\n<li><em>On Top Down Under<\/em> Book of the Year Finalist<\/li>\n<li><em>Best Gay Fiction<\/em> Selection<\/li>\n<li><em>Best Gay Speculative Fiction<\/em> Selection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meet Boo, a wild-hearted boy from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bayou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bayou<\/a> land of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Louisiana<\/a>. Misfit, outcast, loner. Call him anything but a victim. Sissy, fairy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Jenny%20Woman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jenny Woman<\/a>. Son of a mixed-race Holy Ghost mother and a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisiana_French\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cajun French<\/a> phantom father. In a series of tough and tender stories, he encounters gender outlaws, drag queen renegades, and a rogues gallery of sex-starved priests, perverted teachers, and murderous bar owners. To escape his haunted history, Boo must shed his old skin and make a new self. As he does, his story rises from dark and murk, from moss and mud, to reach a new light and a new brand of fairy tale. Cajun legends, queer fantasies, and universal myths converge into a powerful work of counter-realism. <em>Black Sheep Boy<\/em> is a song of passion and a novel of defiance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Boo, a wild-hearted boy from the bayou land of Louisiana. Misfit, outcast, loner. Call him anything but a victim. Sissy, fairy, Jenny Woman. Son of a mixed-race Holy Ghost mother and a Cajun French phantom father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,666,369,8,15,20],"tags":[29832,29833],"class_list":["post-58176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-gaylesbian","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-martin-pousson","tag-rare-bird-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58176"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58229,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58176\/revisions\/58229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}