Open Road Media
January 2015
On Sale: December 23, 2014
Featuring: Larque Harootunian
ISBN: 1453248463 EAN: 9781453248461 Kindle: B00P8KUHH8 e-Book Add to Wish List
A middle-aged housewife whose rebellious inner child runs
away with her talent transforms herself into a fearless
young gay man in this winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award
Larque Harootunian is having a midlife crisis like no
other—but then again, there is much about the frumpy,
middle-aged housewife and mother that could never be
considered ordinary. Larque’s lifelong ability to generate
“dopplegangers,” for example—physical manifestations of her
thoughts and emotions—has been a constant source of stress.
And now she is being tormented by Skylark, a re-creation of
her younger self, an angry inner child who is tormenting
Larque about abandoning her youthful ambitions while running
away with her artistic abilities, thereby depriving the
older Larque of a livelihood as a painter of kitsch.
But perhaps this is Larque’s opportunity to explore her
options. Acquiescing to Sky’s demands that she change
herself, Larque tries on a series of different personas—to
the consternation of her mother, husband, and teenage
sons—and finds her way to Popular Street. There, among the
devil-may-care misfits, Larque can be Lark, a handsome young
gay man, and quite possibly discover what her life is really
about.
In her critically acclaimed contemporary fantasy, multiple
award–winning author Nancy Springer breaks through
boundaries while provocatively comingling the real and the
surreal. Larque on the Wing is a marvel—a moving, funny,
surprising, and transcendent tale of one woman’s strange
quest to come to terms with who she truly is.
Larque Harootunian, 40-year-old mother and crafter of home
decoration products, is going through a messy mid-life
crisis. Her loved ones casually accept her unconscious habit
of creating temporary doppelgangers of people out of thin
air, but when she achieves a complete makeover which
transforms her into a strong, courageous gay man, things may
have gone too far.
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