TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ryan,Patrick Earl
TI  - If we were electric: stories 
T2  - Flannery O'Connor award for short fiction
SN  - 9780820358086
AV  - PS3618.Y337 A6 2020
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Athens
PB  - The University of Georgia Press
KW  - New Orleans (La.)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Louisiana
KW  - New Orleans
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Before Las Blancas -- Blackout -- Feux Follet -- The Blue Son -- An Undisturbed Dark Place -- Between Here and There -- The Cargo -- I Wouldn't Say No -- Labor -- If We Were Electric -- Where It Takes Us -- The Tempest
N2  - "If We Were Electric's twelve stories celebrate New Orleans in all of its beautiful peculiarities-macabre and magical, muddy and exquisite, sensual and spiritual. This debut collection finds its characters in moments of desire and despair, often stuck on the verge of a great metamorphosis, but burdened by some unreasonable love. These are stories about missed opportunities, about people on the outside who don't fit in, about the consequences of not mustering enough courage to overcome the binds. In "Feux Follet," an old man's grief attracts supernatural lights in the dark Louisiana swamps. An exploding transformer's raw, unnerving energy in the title story matches the strange, ferocious temper of an unlucky hustler. "Blackout" sets the profound numbness of a young man physically abused by his mentally unstable partner beside the meaningful beauty of an unexpected moment of joy with someone else. The teenage narrator in "Before Las Blancas" is so overwhelmed by his sexuality that he abandons everything and everyone he's known to live in a happy illusion...in Mexico. And "Where It Takes Us" is a poignant, understated snapshot of a gay man who accompanies his straight, HIV-positive brother to the race track to bond again"--
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