Matt, a street-smart but innocent fugitive from an orphanage hitchhikes through 1980's America in search of Andalusia, the babysitter from his lost, idyllic childhood, and comes to understand guilt, responsibility, and the faces of love

The Whistling Song: A Novel

Beachy, Stephen

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

“Writing like a possessed angel, first-novelist Beachy dreams up the adventures of a male Alice who encounters a 1980s America every bit as darkly bizarre and hilarious as Lewis Carroll’s Victorian wonderland…. A hypnotic, unshakable, painfully funny vision of America by a word-drunk writer.” ―Kirkus Reviews (starred) In this electric on-the-road novel, orphan-hero Matt hitchhikes across the surreal landscape of America in the ‘80s. Searching for the lost bliss of childhood he falls in with―and longs for―the dangerously beautiful but amoral Jimmy, a fellow orphan. As they crisscross the country, encountering homeless rock stars, suicidal teenagers, Jesus freaks, and other souls on the edge, Matt moves toward adulthood and his own sexual identity. Stephen Beachy, awarded a James Michener Grant from the Iowa Writers Workshop, now lives in San Francisco and is at work on another novel.

The Whistling Song: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

W.W.Norton&Company

Fiction. A marriage of The Turn of the Screw and Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls, SOME PHANTOM poses questions about the line between madness and memory, fantasy and abuse. NO TIME FLAT follows Wade, a young boy who grows up on the American plains in an isolated existence with his elderly parents, as he makes his way through a childhood of playground shootings and mysterious strangers. "Stephen Beachy is a complete visionary, a sorcerer, a secret weapon. I'm going to plead with everyone I know: read this book. Read it, and gasp, marvel, rage, weep, and applaud"--Scott Heim.

Some Phantom/No Time Flat

United States

Three Roads Press

Distortion (Gay Men's Fiction)

Harrington Park Pr

Fiction. Gay/Lesbian Studies. New to SPD. After exchanging his least favorite sexual act for ticket money, a young hustler named Reggie (gay, racially mixed, and currently flat broke) finds himself crossing the desert on a Greyhound bus. Unfortunately, Reggie is on speed and believes that sinister cosmic forces are in play and that they're focused on him. Even worse, he may be right. DISTORTION follows Reggie's dark journey from indigent hustler to MTV star and back, across the country and through the twists of his own mind and the minds of the equally dysfunctional people who know him. I like you you were great I mean I really love you I gotta go...

Southern Tier Editions/Haworth Press

An enthralling, epic tale of the webs of misinformation that saturate, obscure, and complicate the vagaries of day-to-day life in modern America. It’s 2006, and a cloud of darkness seems to have descended over the Earth—or at least over the minds of a ragtag assortment of Bay Area writers, drug dealers, social workers, porn directors, and Melvin, a street kid and refugee from his Mormon family. A shooter runs amok in an Amish schoolhouse, the president runs amok in the Middle East, a child is kidnapped from Disneyland, and on the local literary scene, a former child prostitute and wunderkind author that nobody has ever met has become a media sensation. But something is fishy about this author, Huey Beauregard, and so Melvin and his friends Felicia and Philip launch an investigation into the webs of self-serving stories, lies, rumors, and propaganda that have come to constitute our sad, fractured reality.Glory Hole is a novel about the ravages of time and the varied consequences of a romantic attitude toward literature and life. It is about AIDS, meth, porn, fake biographies, street outreach, the study of Arabic verb forms, Polish transgender modernists, obsession, and future life forms. It’s about getting lost in the fog, about prison as both metaphor and reality, madness, evil clowns, and mystical texts. Vast and ambitious, comic and tragic, the novel also serves as a version of the I Ching, meaning it can be used as an oracle.

Glory Hole

Literary

Fiction Collective 2

A mind-bending dystopian science fiction that merges the metaphysical speculation of Philip K Dick with the thrilling adventure of queer Amish cyberpunk. When Zeke Yoder's grandmother is bitten by a genetically modified rat on his Iowa farm, the Amish teen is propelled into a world changing so fast he can barely make sense of it. Introduced to new technologies and new desires by his cyborg buddy Gonzalo, Zeke speeds down hallucinatory highways and through elaborate rat tunnels to save his grandmother and find new land for his people. In a world of conspiracies and counter-conspiracies, and faced with the new government's anti-Amish policies, Zeke is never quite sure who to trust. In a series of adventures with evangelical clones, off-Grid rebels, drugged robots, and intelligent rodents, Zeke will be forced to question everything he has believed and the very nature of reality in the 21st century. There is a newly installed anti-human government and ferocious resistance to that government. There are paranoid scientists in underground bunkers, solar-powered mutants with unconventional desires, and anti-technology terrorists who behead robots. There are love triangles and apocalyptic catastrophes, new kinds of consciousness and new kinds of meat, cryptic messages in the seedy streets of the decaying cities that crashed after the "new meat" boom. This is the first in a series of five books following the adventures of Zeke, his childhood friend Leahbelle, and the mysterious rebel Gonzalo. The second book is Leahbelle Beachy and the Beings of Light, the third is Gonzalo Vega and the Portal Down Below, and the fourth The Voice of Q.

Zeke Yoder vs. the Singularity

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Vapor Books

Leahbelle Beachy has always had a hard time accepting the dictates of the men and boys around her. But strange visitors are troubling her Amish community: Genetically Modified Rats, government exterminators, and a mysterious new technology invading the livestock. It seems the only person who can help her is the seductive and dangerous Gonzalo, a cyborg rebel involved in an underground movement against the government. When catastrophe makes her a fugitive and hurtles her into the outside world, with all its elaborate technologies, genders, and life forms, Leahbelle will be forced to take a journey of discovery. With Gonzalo as her guide, she will chart a parallel path to that of her first love, Zeke Yoder. Torn between her traditional beliefs and the excitement of adventures among the English, she will wrestle with unknown dangers and unexpected desires. In encounters with futuristic youth subcultures, quantum computers, empaths, sociopaths, and beings of light, the winding paths of Leahbelle and Zeke put them on a risky and illuminating collision course with their destinies, and with the destiny of the cosmos itself. "A thrilling, inventive, ominous, and yes, romantic ride. Beachy's Amish Terror series is wild and sweet, like nothing else I've read." ABEER HOQUE, author of OLIVE WITCH "A chaotic, eerily familiar world, rendered in poetic exactitude; an Amish innocent, more tough and discerning than anyone expects her to be; a sequel that surpasses its predecessor in its offering of horrors, transcendence, and thrills." COURTNEY MORENO, author of IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

Leahbelle Beachy and the Beings of Light (Amish Terror)

In this unusual collaborative novel,” Jake Yoder, a precocious boy caught between Amish culture and the modern world, sits in his middle-school classroom writing stories at the behest of a stern but charismatic teacher. Jake's stories feature children who are crushed, imprisoned, and distorted, and yet somehow flailing around with a kind of bedazzled awe, trying to find a way out. His characters wander through Amish farms, one-room schoolhouses, South American plains, mental institutions, exotic cities, and prisons; his sentences seem constructed to the beat of an obsessive internal rhythm, and his prose is often haunting and beautiful. The strange logic and disturbing shifts in Jake’s tales reveal a young boy processing intense emotional experiences in the wake of his mother's suicide and his own proximity to the schoolroom shootings at Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, in 2006. Jake imagines fantastic journeys, magical transformations, and rock stardom as alternatives, it seems, to his own grim reality and the limitations of his life among the Amish.

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Verse Chorus Press

These paired novellas show a master writer developing some of his most emotional, vital explorations of America yet. In Some Phantom an unnamed woman arrives in a strange city, fleeing a violent relationship. She begins to explore the city and its inhabitants and takes a job teaching disturbed children, but she finds her own mental stability becoming more and more precarious. A marriage of The Turn of the Screw and Carnival of Souls, Some Phantom poses questions about the line between memory and madness, fantasy and abuse.These questions are further elaborated in No Time Flat, which follows Wade, a boy living a somewhat isolated existence with his elderly parents on the American plains. Wade makes his way through a childhood marked by playground shootings and mysterious strangers before becoming a wanderer himself, inhabiting a sparse landscape of fleeting connections, lost children, and unformulated crimes.

Some Phantom/No Time Flat: Two Novellas

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The Whistling Song: A Novel

The Whistling Song: A Novel (Norton Paperback Fiction)

Some Phantom/No Time Flat

Distortion (Gay Men's Fiction)

Distortion (Gay Men's Fiction)

Glory Hole

Zeke Yoder vs. the Singularity

Leahbelle Beachy and the Beings of Light (Amish Terror)

boneyard

Some Phantom/No Time Flat: Two Novellas