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Emmy Quinn is West Texas through and through: her roots run deep in the sleepy small town of Steinbeck, where God sees all and football is king. She loves her community, but she knows that when she comes out as a lesbian, she may not be able to call Steinbeck—which is steeped in the Southern Baptist tradition—home anymore.
After a disastrous conversation with her dad, Emmy meets Cameron, a charismatic, whip-smart grad student from Massachusetts who hates everything Texas. But Texas is in Emmy's blood. Can she build a future with a woman who can't accept the things that make Emmy who she is?
Steve Quinn has just been offered his dream job as head coach of the struggling high school football team, the Steinbeck 'Stangs. The board thinks he can win them a state championship for the first time—but they tell him he can't accept the position if he's got any skeletons in his closet. Steve is still wrestling with Emmy's coming-out: he loves his daughter, but he's a man of faith, raised in the Baptist community. How can God ask him to choose between his dreams and his own daughter?
This lush, gorgeously written debut is a love letter to the places we call home and asks how we grapple with a complicated love for people and places that might not love us back—at least, not for who we really are. The Golden Season is a powerful examination of faith, queerness and the deep-seated bonds of family, and heralds the arrival of a striking new voice in fiction.
Don't miss Madeline Kay Sneed's next riveting novel, Today Tonight Forever, where one wedding weekend results in a dramatic reunion with layers of love, grief, and moving on...
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- ISBN: 9780369719218
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- ISBN: 9780369719218
- File size: 589 KB
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December 1, 2021
Emilia "Emmy" Quinn loves all things West Texas, including football. She has also just come out to her separated parents, which could create problems in her Southern Baptist community and especially for her father, who has been offered a plum coaching job but is told he must reveal anything in his life that could be deemed problematic. Complicating matters, Emmy has just met the cutest, smartest grad student, but Cameron is from Massachusetts--and she hates Texas! With a 50,000-copy first printing.
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April 15, 2022
In the small West Texas town where her dad coaches football, Emmy has always been close with her parents, even through their divorce. Emmy knows that, in Texas, you love a boy and smile through any judgment. In her debut, Texan novelist Sneed takes themes of football and religion to flip readers' expectations on their heads and show what love can do to change--or solidify--a person and even a place. Emmy's getting ready to graduate from Walker University, which her mother also attended, and begin a corporate job when she decides to share the truth about her sexuality. Emmy's parents and community, and to a degree Emmy herself, must come to terms with Emmy's queerness. Will the school board president and the church gossip discover that love is love, or do judgmental, small-town roots run too deep? Ultimately, those Emmy least expects to show love are the ones who give her the most comfort. The changing seasons make a perfect backdrop for this timeless story of family, acceptance, and love.COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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