The night bird cantata and other stories - Donald Rawley

A delightful and moving coming-of-age novella and stories from the author of Slow Dance on the Fault Line.

Reminscent of The Testimony of Taliesin Jones, this tender, funny novel of gay awakening will be published alongside a further four of Donald Rawleys fabulous Californian stories.

It is summer 1968 in Phoenix, Arizona, and ten-year-old only son LP wants to be a glamorous woman in sunglasses, rushing someplace secret. Instead, he has a negligent mother, a cruel grandmother ('a tarantula in mink'), a kindly black nursemaid and a new set of friends from the other side of the tracks, with whom he teeters on the edge of sexuality and knowledge of the darker corners of adult life.