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Set in 1953, this novel follows 21-year-old Celia Henderson during a month of uncertainty in her life. Visiting Galveston, Texas, a barrier island with its own history of instability and survival, Celia faces a series of conflicts—between a lawless Galveston and a hypocritical, “moral” mainland; between the Old South and the Old West; and between homosexuals and those prejudiced against them. Celia, who narrates her story 30 years after the fact, must also cope with a sexual double standard inherent in her attraction to an unhappy law student. As she interacts with her irrepressible cowboy cousin Emmett Chandler and a Mexican American artist, Louis Platon, Celia grows to accept her own fears and understand others and life's continual uncertainties. While Celia personifies the innocence of the 1950s—seldom as innocent as portrayed—this tale offers an inside look at continual social problems in the U.S.
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Carolyn Osborn is the author of The Book Club of Texas, The Fields of Memory, A Horse of Another Color, and Warriors & Maidens. She is the recipient of a Distinguished Prose Award from the Antioch Review, a Lon Tinkle Award, and an O. Henry Award. She lives in Austin, Texas.
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In the summer of 1953, college student Celia Henderson escapes the stifling heat of her Central Texas hometown for the Gulf breezes of Galveston, where she is charged with keeping tabs on her hard-partying cousin Emmett. That proves a difficult task since Galveston is known to be Texas' Sin City, and Emmett makes regular visits to the red-light district, casino, and various and sundry bars. With its risqué air and tolerance of human vice, Galveston proves to be a confusing place for Celia, who, enmeshed in an unhappy romance with a law student, is well aware that women pay a higher price for sexual freedom than men do. She wants more from life than a shotgun wedding and a house full of children. Emmett and Celia fall in with a group of rich young people and also meet Louis Platon, a Mexican American artist, rumored to be gay, who indirectly teaches Celia much about accepting the uncertainties of life. Osborn poignantly captures a particular time and place with subtle humor and rich use of idiosyncratic detail. --Joanne Wilkinson
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