Carrie Brownstein, New York Times-bestselling author of Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl Seeking a home in the ragtag yet shimmering world that Chelsey Johnson I tore through this novel like an orphaned reader The stickiness of doing what’s expected and the strange freedom born ofĬontradiction.

Insightful and brilliant, Stray City explores Michelle Tea, award-winning author of Valencia and Black Wave

Cristina Henríquez, bestselling author of The Book of Unknown AmericansĪ love letter to Portland and to the youthful effort of world-making that created its important queer culture in the '90s, Stray City is a gorgeous, funny, sharply spot-on tale of growing up and making family again and again and again. Tender and smart, Stray City is a fantastic debut from a huge talent. Winsome novel about love and belonging-and the possibility ofĭiscovering both in the most unlikely of places, and among the most Jami Attenberg, New York Times bestselling author of The Middlesteins and All Grown Up Chelsey Johnson is one of the most refreshing new voices in literature. Written with wit and sensitivity and exquisite emotional intelligence, Stray City is an absolute pleasure to read. Justin Torres, bestselling author of We the Animals

We make our way through this world. Honestly, one of the most absorbing,įinely-tuned books I’ve had the pleasure of falling down into. Necessary and unexpected revolutions of the self, and about how queerly As funny as it is moving as joyful,Īs radically communal, as it is lonesome, the novel covers the variedĬomplications of place, home, sex, city-but mostly it's about the And I'm not the only one who loves her book about Portland, queer culture, rebels, and the families we make-and remake. W hat are more beautiful seven words than: You have to read this book? I was sent Chelsey Johnson's incredible Indie Next Pick, STRAY CITY and fell in love with it, so of course I had to host her on the blog.

Stray City by Chelsey Johnson