- Fiction, Lesbian teenagers, LGBTQ young adult, Lambda Literary Awards
Abandoned by her mother and raised by her loving but religiously zealous grandmother, 16-year-old Heavenly Faith Simms (H.F. for short) has never felt like she belonged anywhere. When she finds her mother's address in a drawer, she and her best friend, Bo, an emotionally repressed gay boy, hit the road in Bo's scrap heap of a car and head south.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Julia Watts
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 165
- Publisher
- Alyson Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781555836221
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