Red Clay Suzie
$43.49
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
9 May 2024
Summary
- The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Longlist
- Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel
- Indie Next List Pick—American Booksellers Association
- Seven Hills Literary Prize for Fiction
- Foreword INDIES Silver Book of the Year—LGBTQ+ Fiction
- Book of the Year: International Pulpwood Queens and Timber Guys Book Club
- Lambda Literary Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+ Book
- Southern Literary Review Read of the Month
- Southern Liter…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798888455289 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Jeffrey Dale Lofton |
| Publisher: | Post Hill Press |
| Imprint: | Post Hill Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 9 May 2024 |
| Weight: | 483g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 152mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“Arresting debut…a vivid depiction of a unique childhood that feels universal in its longing.” – Christopher Castellani, author of Leading Men “A fabulous and heart-wrenching debut novel.” – Rasheed Newson, author of My Government Means to Kill Me
“It’s so important that marginalized people have access to this book.” – Neema Avashia, author of Another Appalachia: Coming up Queer in and Indian in a Mountain Place
“This fantastic novel is striking. You won’t be able to put it down.” – Morgan Talty, author of Night of the Living Rez and Fire Exit
“I was sad to reach the end of Philbet’s story, but will undoubtedly return again. A true hero.” – Laura Warrell, author of Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
“An intimate exploration of people, place, and identity, Red Clay Suzie opens up the idea of the South into one that is more inclusive and real.” – W. Ralph Eubanks, author of A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape
“If eleven-year-old me had had a book like this to read, what a joy that would have been. It’s beautiful. It’s important. It’s F@#%ing magic.” – Pete Cross, Audie and Earphones Award-Winning Audiobook Narrator and Producer
“From a new, pitch-perfect, Southern voice, a story so close to the heart you can almost hear it beating.” – James Hart, author of Lucky Jim’
“Jeffrey Dale Lofton is a writer’s writer, whose strong, authorial voice captures your imagination with an unshakable grip.” – Willee Lewis, PEN/Faulkner board member, editor of Snakes: An Anthology of Serpent Tales
“A deeply moving story by a unique new voice in Southern literature, Red Clay Suzie belongs in the high school English syllabus.” – Elaine Greenstone, educator, former International Baccalaureate examiner in English, curriculum specialist
Jeffrey Dale Lofton
Jeffrey Dale Lofton hails from Warm Springs, Georgia, best known as the home of Roosevelt’s Little White House. He calls the nation’s capital home now and has for over three decades. He is a senior advisor at the Library of Congress where he is surrounded by books and people who love books—in short, paradise. He is a contributing editor for WELL READ Magazine and co-host of the Inside Voices podcast alongside author Robert Gwaltney.
Red Clay Suzie is his first novel, a fictionalized memoir written through his personal lens as an outsider—gay and living with a disability in a conservative family and community in the Deep South. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of Red Clay Suzie go to support the important work of The Trevor Project and the Born This Way Foundation.
He was the Pat Conroy Literary Center Spring 2024 Writer-in-Residence. Red Clay Suzie was Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize, named an Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association, and was awarded the Seven Hills Literary Prize for Fiction.
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