Description
Brian Jackson returns to his small Appalachian hometown and the family who rejected him. The story of his return to small-town Ohio is told in a chorus of voices: his mother, Sharon; his fourteen-year-old sister, Jess, as she grapples with his mysterious return; and the video diaries Brian makes to document his final summer.
The Prettiest Star offers an urgent portrait of a family at the center of a national crisis, exploring the politics and fragility of the body and the bounds of family and redemption.
One of 2020's most acclaimed books.
Endorsements
Winner of the Southern Book Prize
Winner of the Weatherford Award
A Kirkus Best Fiction Book of 2020
One of O Magazine's Best LGBT Books of 2020
One of the Women's National Book Association's 2020 Great Group Reads selections
EW's 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2020
BookRiot
Lambda Literary
BookPage
Garden & Gun
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"A brutally fresh kind of homecoming novel." — Entertainment Weekly
"Deserves a place in the canon of AIDS literature alongside the likes of Larry Kramer and Rebecca Makkai." — Los Angeles Review of Books
"To answer without flinching away from ugliness and without demonizing the ignorant." — Salon
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