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WINNER OF THE 2022 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
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When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the perils of white passengers, ghosts, and his secret love affair


Baxter''s name isn''t George. But it''s 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he''ll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with "George."

On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days; their secrets start to leak out and blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having. When he finds a naughty postcard of two queer men, Baxter''s memories and longings are reawakened; keeping it puts his job in peril, but he can''t part with the postcard or his thoughts of Edwin Drew, Porter Instructor.









Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
224
ISBN-13:
9780349703909
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0349703906
Udg. Dato:
18 maj 2023
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
225mm
Højde:
144mm
Forlag:
John Murray Press
Oplagsdato:
18 maj 2023
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