![]() ![]() ![]() Andrea has spent years growing into her identity, even against the wishes of her family. Twenty-four-year-old Andrea Morales, a lesbian living in Portland, is at the center of Johnson’s debut novel, Stray City. If you’d spent a lot of time and emotional capital and familial strife establishing this queer identity, what happens when you kind of backslide, and go the other direction? It’s just when you think you’re about to lose something that you realize just how much it means to you or how hard-fought it was.” “I wanted to write a coming out story that went the other way, which to me sounded equally scary and painful. ![]() “For a long time, if you ever tried to rent a gay movie - especially in movies but also in books - we always got the coming-of-age story, which was always a coming out story,” Johnson tells Bustle. When Chelsey Johnson sat down to write her debut novel, she knew she wanted to write a queer book that wasn't a coming out story. ![]()
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