{"product_id":"beautiful-dreamers-hardcover","title":"Beautiful Dreamers - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMinrose Gwin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Minrose Gwin, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eThe Accidentals\u003c\/em\u003e, comes \u003cem\u003eBeautiful Dreamers\u003c\/em\u003e, a story of a precocious teen and her mother, their gay best friend, and the con man who unravels their family.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's 1953 when Memory Feather and her mother, Virginia, are welcomed back home to the Mississippi Gulf Coast community of Belle Cote by Virginia's childhood friend Mac McFadden, whose verve and energy buoy the recently divorced Virginia to embrace this new chapter. Memory (\"Mem\") is unlike other girls: she is attuned to the voices of plants and animals and is missing two fingers on her twisted left hand. The three of them knit their lives together and become a close, though unconventional, family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Mac's wealth, brains, and good humor have allowed him to carve out a niche in Belle Cote, his position as a gay man active in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement exposes him to censure, harassment, and even brutality. When the unscrupulous and charismatic Tony Amato arrives in Belle Cote as Mac's \"guest,\" he sets in motion a series of events that will shatter familial bonds and forever change Mem's life. Now, an adult Mem recounts the story of the scars Tony left in her teenage years, confronting her culpability in the disastrous events of that final summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSweeping, dramatic, and vividly rendered, \u003cem\u003eBeautiful Dreamers\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel of innocence and betrayal, love and intolerance, and the care and honesty we owe the families we choose.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMinrose Gwin\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eThe Queen of Palmyra\u003c\/em\u003e, a Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers pick and a finalist for the John Gardner Fiction Book Award; \u003cem\u003ePromise\u003c\/em\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Willie Morris Award in Southern Literature; and \u003cem\u003eThe Accidentals\u003c\/em\u003e, which received the 2020 Mississippi Institute for Arts and Letters Award in Fiction. She has also published a memoir, \u003cem\u003eWishing for Snow\u003c\/em\u003e, about the collision of poetry and psychosis in her mother's life, and four books of literary and cultural criticism, most recently \u003cem\u003eRemembering Medgar Evers: Writing the Long Civil Rights Movement\u003c\/em\u003e. She was co-editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Literature of the American South\u003c\/em\u003e, a Norton anthology, and \u003cem\u003eThe Southern Literary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike the characters in her novels, Minrose Gwin is a native of Mississippi. She began her writing career as a journalist and later taught at universities across the country, most recently the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her partner, Ruth Salvaggio, and several loquacious four-leggeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more information about Minrose's memoir and novels, see minrosegwin.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 27, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51751810793760,"sku":"9798885740364","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8462cead860c4bc22a10905ef449fa23.webp?v=1779980719","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/beautiful-dreamers-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}