Ojo

To run for your life and be naked, literally and figuratively; to be pursued by your past, eyed and tracked by those you left behind; to be in a foreign environment, all but penniless and stripped of privilege; to be queer and working class to boot; to feel the burden of loss keenly; and to know that somehow you have to start over, create a new life, connect with others and construct a home for yourself, from scratch, never mind you're completely clueless as to how--finding refuge in that storm is what Ojo is about. It surveys the many challenges that humans are confronted with as they face adulthood, the traditions and laws that are by and large the product of old religion. Ojo is a celebration of possibilities, of novel ways of creating a world, even as the old ways continue to bear down and haunt a person. But most of all it's a story of finding love in the 1980's in the west, in cowboy country, at the beginning of the HIV pandemic.

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Ojo

To run for your life and be naked, literally and figuratively; to be pursued by your past, eyed and tracked by those you left behind; to be in a foreign environment, all but penniless and stripped of privilege; to be queer and working class to boot; to feel the burden of loss keenly; and to know that somehow you have to start over, create a new life, connect with others and construct a home for yourself, from scratch, never mind you're completely clueless as to how--finding refuge in that storm is what Ojo is about. It surveys the many challenges that humans are confronted with as they face adulthood, the traditions and laws that are by and large the product of old religion. Ojo is a celebration of possibilities, of novel ways of creating a world, even as the old ways continue to bear down and haunt a person. But most of all it's a story of finding love in the 1980's in the west, in cowboy country, at the beginning of the HIV pandemic.

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Ojo

Ojo

by Donald Mengay
Ojo

Ojo

by Donald Mengay

Overview

To run for your life and be naked, literally and figuratively; to be pursued by your past, eyed and tracked by those you left behind; to be in a foreign environment, all but penniless and stripped of privilege; to be queer and working class to boot; to feel the burden of loss keenly; and to know that somehow you have to start over, create a new life, connect with others and construct a home for yourself, from scratch, never mind you're completely clueless as to how--finding refuge in that storm is what Ojo is about. It surveys the many challenges that humans are confronted with as they face adulthood, the traditions and laws that are by and large the product of old religion. Ojo is a celebration of possibilities, of novel ways of creating a world, even as the old ways continue to bear down and haunt a person. But most of all it's a story of finding love in the 1980's in the west, in cowboy country, at the beginning of the HIV pandemic.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798990054325
Publisher: Saddle Road Press
Publication date: 09/09/2024
Pages: 326
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.73(d)

About the Author

Donald Mengay grew up in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked in a factory for a time and managed a bookstore. He began writing fiction in his early twenties. He taught Queer and Post-Humanist Lit at the City University of New York for over thirty years, as well as English at the University of Paris, Nanterre. During his years teaching he published several articles of queer criticism in academic journals that include among others Genders, Genre, and Minnesota University Press. He also co-published a book entitled Dis/Inheritance: New Croatian Photography, from Ikon Press. The Lede to Our Undoing, his debut novel, was the first in this trilogy. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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