Title: The Meadowlark Sings
Author: Helen Ruth Schwartz
Language: English
ISBN: 9781560235750
Publisher: Harrington Park Pr
Extension: EPUB
Size: 217 KB
Subjects: Lesbian, Gay, Fiction, Lesbians, General, Exiles, Science Fiction, Political, United States, Fantasy, Feminist Fiction, Gays
Join Cara Romero as she returns from the all-homosexual nation of Cali to her homeland - a United States of America that has become openly hostile to gays. The year is 2018, and the great earthquake that had been predicted for decades hit California. Approximately 40 miles east of the coastline, the earthquake created a chasm that quickly filled with the raging waters from the Pacific. A piece of land that was once the west coast of California was now separated from the mainland of the United States by the newly formed body of water. An island had been born. America's right-wing elite formed a plan: the newly created island would be a modern gulag - a place to which sexual undesirables would be shipped, never (they hoped) to be heard from again. There would be no relationship between the new island and the United States; such was the strength of the "righteous" fear of homosexuality. By 2022, the religious right has effected an awful change in America's moral climate. The United States has become a place where any gay or lesbian adult is given a clear choice: conform to new, viciously repressive sexuality laws, or be exiled. And for the youngest citizens, there is no choice. Any child found to carry the newly discovered and much-feared "gay gene" is put on a ship before reaching three years of age - banished, forever, from US shores. But they forgot that gays and lesbians have brains, skills, and passion. On their island they built a new country, and called it Cali. In the gorgeous Southern California climate, they pooled their resources, shared their knowledge and skills, learned to live together. And the best of them worked to form a new government - a society where all citizens of the new nation lived in freedom, without oppression, where productivity was rewarded and participation was encouraged. Quite naturally, human ingenuity, unfettered, brought progress. When it became known that citizens of Cali are living longer, healthier lives than citizens of most countries, the rest of the world want to know why. And because of world interest, for the first time, a delegate from Cali is invited to participate in an international conference on aging, held in New York City...
Review
"Meadowlark is lush, fully developed and very well crafted. I loved it!" -- Shelly Roberts, Author of Baby Dykes
"TRULY A PAGE-TURNER . . . IMPOSSIBLE TO PUT DOWN. There is spectacular suspense and a plot that never stops twisting." -- Dr. Ronni Sanlo, Director, UCLA Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Campus Resource Center
About the Author
Helen Ruth Schwartz currently lives in Florida. She is also a member of the Federal Club of the Human Rights Campaign and is a supporter of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund.
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