and the Gotham Book Prize • Longlisted for The Women’s Prize • Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick • New York Times Editors’ Choice
The family of an Osage woman
Her stories have appeared in collections throughout her career
Nicole Dennis-Benn
from the ineffectiveness of sodomy laws in the colonies to the prevalence of cross-dressing women soldiers in the Civil War and resistance to homophobic social purity movements
Birdy Chinese and the Gotham Book PrizeAuthor Contributor(s): Wharton, William Publisher: Vintage Date: 2 4 1992 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW Hailed upon its publication as "a classic for readers not yet born" (Philadelphia Inquirer), Birdy is an inventive, hypnotic novel about friendship and family, dreaming and surviving, love and war, madness and beauty, and, above all, "birdness." It tells the story of Al, a bold, hot tempered boy whose goals in life are to life weights and pick