Title We had no rules : stories / Corinne Manning.

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Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, [2020]

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Burlington Public Library - Adult Department	FIC MANNING	Check Shelf
Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department	F MANNING	Check Shelf
Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Fiction	F MANNING	Check Shelf
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Description	167 pages ; 21 cm
Summary	"A young teenager stays a step ahead of her parents' sexuality-based restrictions by running away and learns a very different set of rules. A woman grieves the loss of a sister, a 'gay divorce', and the pain of unacknowledged abuse with the help of a lone wallaby on a farm in Washington State. A professor of women's and gender studies revels in academic and sexual power but risks losing custody of the family dog. In Corinne Manning's stunning debut story collection, a cast of queer characters explore the choice of assimilation over rebellion. In this historical moment that's hyperaware of and desperate to define even the slowest of continental shifts, when commitment succumbs to the logic of capitalism and nobody knows what to call each other or themselves--Gay? Lesbian? Queer? Partners? Dad?--who are we? And if we don't know who we are, what exactly can we offer each other? Spanning the years 1992 to 2019, and moving from New York to North Carolina to Seattle, the eleven first-person stories in We Had No Rules feature characters who feel the promise of a radically reimagined world but choose complicity instead."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents	We had no rules -- Gay tale -- Professor M -- The boy the periphery of the world -- Chewbacca and Clyde -- The appropriate weight -- Ninety days -- The painting on Bedford Ave. -- Seeing in the dark -- The wallaby -- The only pain you feel.
Subject	Sexual minorities -- United States -- Fiction.
	Sexual minority community -- United States -- Fiction.
	Sexual minority culture -- United States -- Fiction.
	Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction.
	United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
	Choice (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00858327
	Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
	Sexual minorities. (OCoLC)fst01202158
	Sexual minority community. (OCoLC)fst01910176
	Sexual minority culture. (OCoLC)fst02010860
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form	Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
	Gay fiction. (OCoLC)fst01986220
	Lesbian fiction. (OCoLC)fst02000476
	Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
	Short stories. (OCoLC)fst01726740
	Short stories.
	Lesbian fiction.
	Gay fiction.
	Psychological fiction.
Other Form:	Online version: Manning, Corinne, 1983- We had no rules. Vancouver : Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020 1551528002 9781551528007 (OCoLC)1125949390
ISBN	9781551527994 (paperback)
	1551527995 (paperback)

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