Stray City: A Novel
- Author: Chelsey Johnson
- Narrator: Natalie Moore
- Publisher: HarperCollins USA
- Duration: 10:22:29
Synopsis
A warm, funny, and whip-smart debut novel about rebellious youth, inconceivable motherhood, and the complications of belonging—to a city, a culture, and a family—when none of them can quite contain who you really are.
All of us were refugees of the nuclear family . . .
Twenty-four-year-old artist Andrea Morales escaped her Midwestern Catholic childhood—and the closet—to create a home and life for herself within the thriving but insular lesbian underground of Portland, Oregon. But one drunken night, reeling from a bad breakup and a friend’s betrayal, she recklessly crosses enemy lines and hooks up with a man. To her utter shock, Andrea soon discovers she’s pregnant—and despite the concerns of her astonished circle of gay friends, she decides to have the baby.
A decade later, when her precocious daughter Lucia starts asking questions about the father she’s never known, Andrea is forced to reconcile the past she hoped to leave behind with the life she’s worked so hard to build.
A thoroughly modern and original anti-romantic comedy, Stray City is an unabashedly entertaining literary debut about the families we’re born into and the families we choose, about finding yourself by breaking the rules, and making bad decisions for all the right reasons.
Chapters
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001 Stray City
Duration: 32s -
002 Part I-My People
Duration: 27min -
003 Rules of the Lesbian Mafia
Duration: 27s -
004 Jesus Had A Twin
Duration: 23min -
005 Family Dinner
Duration: 19min -
006 The Lesbian Mafia Official Shitlist (Excerpt)
Duration: 53s -
007 No Expectations
Duration: 11min -
008 Born Family
Duration: 28min -
009 Expectations
Duration: 11min -
010 My Type
Duration: 09min -
011 Pride
Duration: 19min -
012 Artifacts
Duration: 10min -
013 Cutting Off
Duration: 09min -
014 The Good Part
Duration: 17min -
015 The Coast
Duration: 08min -
016 Our Art
Duration: 18min -
017 Secondhand News
Duration: 16min -
018 Lessons
Duration: 08min -
019 End Times
Duration: 12min -
020 My Ailment
Duration: 15min