Category Archives: LGTBQ

Author Interview: Hillary Whittington, Raising Ryland

Raising Ryland, Our Story of Parenting a Transgender Child with No Strings Attached

BIC: Can you speak to how your story is particularly relevant to the Campus and Community Reads audiences?  HW: I describe my final breaking point with Ryland, when he breaks down after years of trying to tell me that he is a boy. I describe those moments when he says, “I will wait for the […]

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Book Review: Lori Ostlund’s After the Parade

After the Parade by Lori Ostlund

In her debut novel, After the Parade, she continues a slow revelation about how no matter where you settle in the world, where you came from is never far away. Ostlund’s open-hearted contemplation of how we grow up and move on is written with wit and bursting with vitality.

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