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(0)Jeffrey Dale Lofton
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"Philbet Lawson is born in 1960s rural Georgia with two inescapable strikes against him: he's gay and physically misshapen, both of which inform his every thought, unless he's thinking about cars, his obsession. His world is populated by an ineffectual father; a devoted though fearful mother; a rowdy but popular older brother; his best friend, a Black boy who also understands the sting of being an outsider; boorish uncles who belittle Philbet for...
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Red Clay Suzie is the coming-of-age story of a boy living in the Deep South, who struggles against suffocating expectations, heartless indifference, and wounding rejection. Ultimately, he finds inner strength from life lessons learned in Grandaddy's garden and through his passion for Knox-the boy to whom he has given his heart-if only he can summon the courage to tell him.