Book
Music from another world
Call Number
- FICTION TALL TEEN (CEN)
Publication Information
Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Inkyard Press, [2020]
Physical Description
377 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"It's summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can't be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy's only outlet is writing secret letters in her diary to gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk--until she's matched with a real-life pen pal who changes everything. Sharon Hakwins bonds with Tammy over punk music and carefully shared secrets, and soon their letters become the one place she can be honest. The rest of her life in San Francisco is full of lies. The kind she tells for others--like helping her gay brother hide the turth from their mom--and the kind she tells herself. But as antigay fervor in America reaches a frightening new pitch, Sharon and Tammy must rely on their long-distance friendship to discover their deeply personal truths, what they'll stand for--and who they'll rise against."--Jacket.
Subjects
- Gay teenagers > Juvenile fiction.
- Lesbians > Juvenile fiction.
- Pen pals > Juvenile fiction.
- Secrecy > Juvenile fiction.
- Punk rock music > Juvenile fiction.
- Homophobia > Juvenile fiction.
- Lesbians > Fiction.
- Sexual minorities > Civil rights > Fiction.
- Pen pals > Fiction.
- Families > Fiction.
- Diaries > Fiction.
- Coming of age > Fiction.
- San Francisco (Calif.) > Juvenile fiction.
- San Francisco (Calif.) > Fiction.
- Orange County (Calif.) > Fiction.