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The Rib Joint : A Memoir in Essays by Koets, Julia, Koets, Julia, Koets, Julia, Koets, Julia, Koets, Julia is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**"This dazzling writer has created a guidebook for growing up queer in the American South . . . a testament to human endurance and dignity." —Nick White, author of __Sweet & Low__** Growing up in a small town in the South, Julia and her childhood best friend Laura know the church as well as they know each other's bodies—the California-shaped scar on Julia's right knee, the tapered thinness of Laura's fingers, the circumference of each other's ponytails. When Laura's family moves away in middle school and Julia gets a crush on the new priest's daughter at their church, Julia starts to more fully realize the consequences of being anything but straight in the South. After college, when Julia and her best friend Kate wait tables at a rib joint in Julia's hometown, they are forced to face the price of the secrets they've kept—from their families, each other, and themselves. From astronaut Sally Ride's obituary, to a UFO Welcome Center, to a shark tooth collection, to DC Comic's Gay Ghost, this memoir-in-essays draws from mythology, religion, popular culture, and personal experience to examine how coming out is not a one-time act. At once heartrending and beautiful, __The Rib Joint__ ex

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Author

Koets, Julia, Koets, Julia, Koets, Julia, Koets, Julia, Koets, Julia

Publisher

Red Hen Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9782019033842

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Collections, Literary Fiction