![]() I spoke with Chelsey just before Stray City’s publication. ![]() Johnson writes beautifully about a particular time and place-a queer space of refuge and possibility-with nuance, insight, and wit, and creates unforgettable, compelling characters. Stray City is a hilarious, smart, and complicated novel about queer identity and community and self-discovery, and about the homes we leave and the homes we create. To recognize someone anywhere you go.” But things take an unexpected turn after she hooks up with a cis-man and gets pregnant. I’ve never known anything like it and won’t again. ![]() A card-carrying member of the Lesbian Mafia, Andrea creates a new life and home in Portland, where she finally feels like she belongs: “We knew each other. Chelsey Johnson on Her New Novel ‘Stray City’, Her Musical Influences, and Capturing the 90sĬhelsey Johnson’s brilliant debut novel Stray City (Custom House, March 2018) follows Andrea Morales, a young queer woman who escapes Nebraska in the late 90s to attend college in Portland, Oregon, where she immerses herself in the lesbian community and punk culture. ![]()
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