Any Kind of Luck at All: A Memoir Politics and Culture In "El Lay

In "El Lay

uncompromising light on one man's reckoning with fate

Tansy invents Gemma

A painful but ultimately empowering queer history lesson

When Cassie Klein goes to an off-campus bar to escape her school's Family Weekend

Any Kind of Luck at All: A Memoir Politics and Culture In "El LayWhat was it like growing up as a smart girl in a world of 1970s suburban conformity? What family secrets were hidden behind the vertical blinds and sliding glass doors, or swept under the orange shag carpets? Is it possible to move from married mother of two to lesbian feminist activist without passing heartache? In her bittersweet memoir, Mary Fairhurst Breen sketches scenes from a life darkened by four generations of mental illness and addiction.