Map
by Audrey Beth Stein
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Pub Date May 17 2022 | Archive Date Jun 08 2022
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Description
As a late-blooming, sexually-confused college senior, Audrey Beth Stein was looking for love, but she never expected it to arrive via email, from someone she first knew only as catrina@juno.com...
It was 1996. A time when the Indigo Girls had just performed their first explicitly gay songs, Ellen DeGeneres was preparing to come out on national television, and Tinder and OkCupid did not yet exist. A time when being queer was just a little bit easier than admitting you'd met someone through the internet.
Offering layers of introspection and insight reminiscent of Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep and Cheryl Strayed's Tiny Beautiful Things, this coming-of-age memoir combines the page-turning exuberance of falling in love for the first time, the disorienting clarity of loss, and the triumph of letting go of the training wheels.
**Lambda Literary Award Finalist**
Advance Praise
""Delightfully original and fun to read"" - Lambda Literary
""Refreshing to hear a coming out tale that wasn't completely and totally heart breaking... a joy to read... this one has the yaReads stamp of approval."" - yaReads
""There is all the angst you would expect, and a level of melodrama that will remind you, painfully, of your first relationship. But it's also surprisingly humorous, and a couple of times I actually laughed out loud."" - Three Good Rats blog (book reviews by a librarian).
""a sweet and smart book"" - AfterEllen.com
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9798985426533 |
| PRICE | $19.95 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Taylor S, Reviewer
I wasn’t sure I liked this book in the first few pages, but then I started to realize that it was maybe too similar to my own thought patterns and I hadn’t read a book that could verbalize my thoughts and struggles with growing up and falling in love and your first real heartbreak, but MAP did that. It was nice to feel seen to know queer women before me have existed and have felt all the feelings of not enough. I feel such a kinship with Audrey now, like I have an older sister to act as a guide, to tell me everything will fall into place.
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