Tender and punk-tough queer voices from 1990s Portland.Shine of the Everis a literary mixtape of short stories exploring a community of queer and trans people. Navigating love, mistakes, and self-forgiveness, these characters negotiate the complexities of identity and relationships.
Set against the backdrop of a vibrant 1990s Portland, these stories bind together a community as they learn to forgive themselves for being young and sometimes foolish. Perfect for readers seeking authentic queer narratives,Shine of the Everoffers a nostalgic and heartfelt look at love, identity, and community. This collection is ideal for fans of LGBTQ+ fiction, short stories, and tales of self-discovery.
“[W]e are a mass of bliss and fury and love and pain and truth and sound,” Foster writes in the first story of this polyphonic mixtape of short fiction set in and around Portland. With prose that's at once wrenching and punk-poetic, Foster renders Stumptown as a flawed utopia, populated by people who inhabit that liminal space between longing and belonging. —Michelle Hart, O Magazine
Claire Rudy Fosteris a queer, nonbinary single parent in recovery. Their short story collection,I’ve Never Done This Before, was published to warm acclaim in 2016. With four Pushcart Prize nominations, Foster’s writing has appeared inMcSweeney’s,The Rumpus, and many other journals. Their nonfiction work has reached millions of readers inThe New York Times, The Washington Post,andNarratively, among others. Foster lives and writes in Portland, Oregon.
Shine of the Ever is a timely, nuanced collection with a strong POV, from an author whose work has been viewed online by hundreds of thousands of readers.
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