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by Elaine Burnes
by Elaine Burnes
It’s 2004, the year same-sex marriage becomes legal in Massachusetts, the year the Red Sox break the curse, and the year everything changes for Meg Myers.
Meg is an animal control officer who doesn’t much like people and doesn’t believe wishes come true. She grew up in state care, bouncing between foster homes and her alcoholic mother. Left physically and emotionally scarred, she is guarded about her past and pessimistic about her future. So she focuses on her job and her dream of opening an animal shelter.
Meg’s world is rocked by three women: Pam and her foster daughter, Violet; Gina, twin to Meg’s best friend Jeff; and Samantha, the vet who shares an uncomfortable past with Meg. Through her relationships with these women, Meg is forced to explore mother-daughter bonds, loss and grief, and what defines friendship and gender in her quest to find security and love for the first time in her life.
GCLS Awards
Winner
2017 Dramatic/General Fiction
Runner Up
2015 Rainbow Award for Best Lesbian Debut
"Author Interview: Elaine Burnes Chats about Wishbone" — I Heart Sapphfic
“I especially encourage anyone else out there who has lived through unspeakable tragedy to embrace this book with open arms. Beautifully written and poignantly powerful, I can truly say that Wishbone gave me hope where before dwelled naught but despair. And that alone is worth all the time in the world.” — “Wishbone by Elaine Burnes” Review by Tabitha Beth, The Rainbow Hub
Details
Details
Bink Books
270 pp. ● 6×9
$15.95 (pb) ● $9.95 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-939562-78-4 (pb)
FICTION – Literary
FICTION – Lesbian
Elaine Burnes lives in western Massachusetts. After 20 years working and writing for a variety of environmental nonprofits, she tired of reality and turned to writing fiction in her spare time, publishing her first short story, “A Perfect Life,” in Skulls and Crossbones (Mindancer Press) in 2010. Since then, she’s had more stories published, including “A Certain Moon,” in the Golden Crown Literary Society Award–winning anthology Wicked Things from Ylva in 2014, and “Auto Repair,” which earned an honorable mention in the 2015 Saints and Sinners Short Fiction Contest. These are collected in A Perfect Life and Other Stories (GusGus Press, 2016), which won a Rainbow Award for Best Lesbian Anthology/Collection. Her first novel, Wishbone (Bedazzled Ink, 2015) received a 2016 Golden Crown Literary Society Award for Dramatic/General Fiction.
Q&A with Elaine Burnes – Women & Words
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