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Proud Pink Sky
In this stunning work of speculative urban fiction, Redfern Jon Barrett breaks down the binary between utopia and dystopia--presenting an ambitopian vision of the world's first gay state.
A glittering gay metropolis of 24 million people, Berlin is a bustling world of pride parades, polyamorous trysts, and even an official gay language. Its distant radio broadcasts are a lifeline for teenagers William and Gareth, who flee toward sanctuary. But is there a place for them in the deeply divided city?
Meanwhile, young mother Cissie loves Berlin's towering high rises and chaotic multiculturalism, yet she's never left her heterosexual district--not until she and her family are trapped in a queer riot. With her husband Howard plunging into religious paranoia, she discovers a walled-off slum of perpetual twilight, home to the city's forbidden trans residents.
Challenging assumptions of sex and gender, Proud Pink Sky questions how much of ourselves we need to sacrifice in order to find identity and community.
Book Details
- Publisher: Bywater Books
- Publish Date: Mar 14th, 2023
- Pages: 275
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.50in - 0.90in - 0.90lb
- EAN: 9781612942537
- Categories: • LGBTQ+ - General• Dystopian• Fantasy - Urban
About the Author
Redfern Jon Barrett (they/them) is a writer, community activist, and author of the novels Forget Yourself and The Giddy Death of the Gays & the Strange Demise of Straights, which was a finalist in the Bisexual Book Awards and shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award. Redfern's short stories have appeared in Booth, The Sun, Passages North, SLEEK, and Flash Fiction Online, were shortlisted for Scotland's HISSAC prize, and longlisted for the Royal Academy/Pin Drop Short Story Award; their other writing has been featured in publications including Guernica and PinkNews, as well as the National Museum of Denmark.
Born in the North of England, Redfern lived in market towns, seaside resorts, and post-industrial cities, before moving to Wales and gaining a Ph.D. in Literature from Swansea University (Prifysgol Abertawe). Their campaign work for LGBTQ and polyamory rights has been referenced in The Mirror, Metro, BBC News, Buzzfeed, and The Independent. Now Redfern lives in the Kreuzberg district of Berlin, with two boyfriends and far too many books.
Learn more about them at www.redjon.com
Praise for this book
"Astute and frightening as Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four yet reads with the pace and energy of a modern action thriller." --My Gay Toronto
"Proud Pink Sky is an impressively readable work that captivates you early on and drags you effortlessly into a utopia that isn't quite what it's cracked up to be. You'll enjoy the characters, the story, and the setting. What more could you ask for?" --Out in Print
". . . an important, well-written, complex tale that will grip you, shake you, and give you a different view of what makes a utopia, and at what costs." --Queer Sci Fi
"Like most utopian/dystopian novels, the main point of this novel is showing us a hypothetical universe--what would the world be like if LGBTQ people had defeated, or at least helped to defeat the Nazis? What would a city-state run by and for LGBTQ people be like? . . . Utopian novels tend to be weak when it comes to having an actual plot, but Barrett dodges that problem." --Interzone