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Queer Reads: Mesha Maren’s ‘Shae’ is a queer, Appalachian coming-of-age story

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With her novels, Sugar Run and Perpetual West, Mesha Maren was deemed a “highest-order storyteller of Southern noir” (Electric Literature).

She  perperuats such status with Shae, both an intimate, heartbreaking, and honest portrayal of the West Virginia of her upbringing and a captivating coming-of-age story of queer identity, early parenthood, and addiction.

Garrard Conley, author of Boy Erased and All the World Beside, said, “This book is essential for the new queer canon emerging from Southern writers.

I can’t wait to put this in the hands of so many people who need it and will no doubt see themselves in this beautiful narrative.” Publication date for Shae is May 21, retailing at $27.

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