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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Mayr, Suzette, author.     Subjects     Black people -- North America -- Fiction.     Gay people -- North America -- Fiction.     Racism -- Fiction.     African American men -- Fiction.     Gay men -- Fiction.     Porters -- Fiction.     Sleep deprivation -- Fiction.     Tipping -- Fiction.     Dentistry -- Fiction.     Rail passengers -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Mayr, Suzette, author.       by title:      The sleeping car por...         MARC Display

The sleeping car porter / Suzette Mayr. by Mayr, Suzette, author. Toronto : Coach House Books, [2022] Subjects Black people -- North America -- Fiction.   Gay people -- North America -- Fiction.   Racism -- Fiction.   African American men -- Fiction.   Gay men -- Fiction.   Porters -- Fiction.   Sleep deprivation -- Fiction.   Tipping -- Fiction.   Dentistry -- Fiction.   Rail passengers -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781552454589 (paperback) 1552454584 (paperback) Description:  219 pages : illustration ; 21 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a gay man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways. Affecting, imaginative, and visceral enough that you'll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment. Baxter's name isn't George. But it's 1929, and Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country. So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile and nod and act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he'll have to save up a lot of nickel and dime tips to get there, so he puts up with "George." On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days; their secrets start to leak out and blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having. When he finds a naughty postcard of two gay men, Baxter's memories and longings are reawakened; keeping it puts his job in peril, but he can't part with the postcard or his thoughts of Edwin Drew, Porter Instructor."-- Awards:  Winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, 2022   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hilo Public Library Adult Fiction Mayr Checked In Add Copy to MyList CLOSED TEMPORARILY: Honokaa Public Library Adult Fiction Mayr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapaa Public Library Adult Fiction Mayr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kapolei Public Library Adult Fiction Mayr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Makawao Public Library Adult Fiction Mayr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Fiction Mayr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Pahoa P/S Library Adult Fiction Mayr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Nanakuli Public Library Adult Fiction Mayr Checked In Add Copy to MyList Wailuku Public Library Adult Fiction Mayr Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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