Goldenrod

For the quirky residents of Jericho, life has as many twists and turns as a winding mountain road.

Goldenrod takes us on a delightful journey back to Jericho, a sleepy town in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia where life is anything but dull. Maddie and Syd struggle to find a new normal without their foster child, Henry, who has been reunited with his disabled-veteran father. Henry befriends Buddy—an enigmatic young man who is fascinated with pi, and Dorothy—a young girl wrestling with her own brand of family demons. Meanwhile, David takes on the town’s nemesis as a write-in candidate for mayor—and the irrepressible Roma Jean Freemantle struggles to wrangle an unwieldy bookmobile and her growing attraction to another woman.

Journeys of life and love take some unexpected turns in this endearing community, but through it all, hope and the human spirit glow as brilliantly as goldenrod in the midsummer sun.

Goldenrod received the following awards and honors:

• Awarded 2018 Independent Publisher’s (IPPY) Bronze Medal, Southeast – Best Regional Fiction.
• Awarded 2018 Golden Crown Literary Award for Best Lesbian General Fiction.
• Golden Crown Literary Society’s 2018 Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award, Short List.
• 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Romance, Short List.

More about Goldenrod:

“Goldenrod takes us back to Jericho, where the modern-day fight for respect and civil rights can sometimes be a literal fight. Its hardscrabble characters invoke Dorothy Allison; its provocative humor, Rita Mae Brown. In other words—it’s pure Ann McMan. ” —Lambda Literary Award winner, KG MacGregor

“Goldenrod is a substantial, touching, loving—at times, laugh-out-loud funny—gathering of evocative characters who lead intricately interwoven lives in a setting as dramatic and full of life as its inhabitants. Ann McMan is a writer with a multitude of unique gifts, and I thank her for sharing them so freely with her readers.” —Lee Lynch, author of The Swashbuckler

“McMan’s writing is glorious, her wit and intellect as sharp as ever, and her pin-point descriptions are those of a keen observer of the absurdity of human behaviour.” —Velvet Lounger, The Lesbian Reading Room

“With politics being what they are right now in the United States and across the world, this is a book we need—it draws a line in the sand about what’s right and what’s not, in our homes and in our communities. Even better, it does so in a way that’s warm, witty, and engaging.” —Tara Scott, The Lesbian Review

“I love Ann McMan.” —Dorothy Allison, author of National Book Award finalist, Bastard Out of Carolina

Publication Date: July 2017 by Bywater Books

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