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It's the summer of 1990 and Crystal Beach has lost its beloved, long-running amusement park, leaving the lakeside village a virtual ghost town. It is back to this fallen community that Starla Mia Martin must return to live with her overbearing mother after dropping out of university and racking up significant debt. But an economic downturn, mother-daughter drama, and Generation X disillusionment soon prove to be to be the least of Starla's troubles. A mysterious and salacious force begins to dog her; inexplicable sounds in the night and indescribable sights spotted in the periphery. Soon enough, Starla must confront the unresolved traumas that haunt Crystal Beach.
Sodom Road Exit might read like a conventional paranormal thriller, except that Starla is far from a conventional protagonist. Where others might feel fear, Starla feels lust and queer desire. When others might run, Starla draws the horror nearer. And in turn, she draws a host of capricious characters toward her--all of them challenged to seek answers beyond their own temporal realities.
Sodom Road Exit, the second novel by Lambda Literary Award winner Amber Dawn, is a book that's alive with both desire and dread.
Price: $12.99
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Imprint: Arsenal Pulp Press
Publication Date:
29 May 2018
ISBN: 9781551527178
Format: eBook
"In Sodom Road Exit, Amber Dawn writes at the edges, crossing the
lines that separate reality from obsession, the living world from the
dead, the trailer park from the strip club. In this vital novel, Starla
returns home to Crystal Beach, a derelict resort town, to live with her
mother, trailing a history of debt and failure. Home again, she
encounters the ghosts of her childhood and adolescence, finds a job at a
campsite, falls in love, and is possessed by another ghost, a forgotten
woman named Etta, who died at the abandoned amusement park, and who is
determined to be remembered in her afterlife. Sodom Road Exit is
an extraordinary, strange, and deeply human novel about the often futile
search for redemption, healing, and the ways in which we survive." —Jen
Sookfong Lee, author of The Conjoined and The Better Mother
"A fun park ghost story that tilts from horror to desire and back again, Sodom Road Exit is both the roller coaster and the scream—a long, death-defying scream that roars through pain and betrayal, forgiveness and new life. Amber Dawn's Star will break your heart, if apparitional Etta doesn't beat her to it; and the impact of their shivery, sensual touch across time will ripple fresh into the future. With ferocious compassion and an unforgettable cast of characters, Amber Dawn has written an extraordinary novel of queer love and survival. Consent to be possessed by it."
—Megan Milks, author of Kill Marguerite and Other Stories
Amber Dawn is the author of the Lambda Literary award-winning novel Sub Rosa, the Vancouver Book Award-winning memoir How Poetry Saved My Life, and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize-nominated poetry collection Where the words end and my body begins. She teaches creative writing at Douglas College and the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, and also leads several low-barrier community writing classes. Currently she is co-artistic director of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival.