Bøker av Brooke Skipstone

Editor's Pick Booklife Reviews: A fast-paced yet thoughtful romance of coming out and finding love in later life in Alaska5 Star Clarion Reviews: A riveting novel . . . about love, courage, and solidarityKirkus Reviews: [A]n impressive story that packs a punch.¿Trapped between a homicidal brother and a homophobic podcaster eager to reveal her lesbian romance novels, a seventy-year-old grandmother seeks help in Clear, Alaska.Suffocating in a loveless marriage and lonely existence, Taylor MacKenzie lives only through her writing, using the pen name Brooke Skipstone, her best friend in college and lover before her death in 1974. Afraid of being murdered before anyone in her family or community knows her life story, Taylor writes an autobiography about her time with Brooke and shares it with those closest to her, hoping for understanding and acceptance.Accused of promoting the queering and debasement of America by a local podcaster, Taylor embroils the conservative community in controversy but fights back with the help of a new, surprising friend.Can she endure the attacks from haters and gaslighters? Can she champion the queering she represents?And will she survive?

In 1968, a seventeen-year-old queer girl traveled to Alaska disguised as a boy.

"Sixteen-year-old Delaney, who is traumatized after witnessing her father's infidelity in the woods, blames herself for her parents' divorce. She rewrites stories from that period, telling herself "I couldn't go back in time, but maybe I could skip sideways." When her mother, a physicist, explains the Many Worlds Theory--in which a separate universe exists for each possible choice a person could have made, including consequences that branch out from them--Delaney is shaken. Enticing because of its eerie implications and gradual in its execution, the theory unfolds through Delaney's anxious perspective."--