Via Chicago

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-43294-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 33, 202 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 346 g

Reihe: Social Fictions Series

What is a family? How do families of choice develop?

These questions permeate Via Chicago as ten people come together as a familial unit after each experiencing and (at least) beginning to recover from prior traumatic experiences. Ella and Linsk are a nonmonogamous couple who have helped one another heal and built an unconventional family together with Case, Kaisa, Reeves, Jo, Andrei, and Michelle over the course of a decade. As the novel begins, Mercury has just moved to Chicago to pursue graduate study when they begin a romantic relationship with Ella and a broader emotional engagement with the family. At the same time, Mercury is beginning to work through traumatic past experiences while Jo might have found love in the form of a new guy the family just calls Twitter Boy. As the novel progresses, we follow Mercury, Jo, and the rest of the family as each relates to their own and others’ traumatic experiences and bonds together over these and other shared aspects of their lives, desires, and goals.


Via Chicago could be utilized in the teaching of sociology, families, romantic relationships, gender, sexualities, geography, urban studies, LGBTQIA studies, polyamory, trauma recovery, or narrative courses, or of course, it could be read entirely for pleasure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sumerau, J E

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Mercury

Ella

Linsk

Case

Linsk

Jo

Mercury

Case

Kaisa

Linsk

Ella

Jo

Mercury

Ella

Reeves

Case

Kaisa

Linsk

Jo

Case

Mercury

Andrei

Jo

Linsk

Ella

Reeves

Kaisa

Ella

Mercury

Case

Michelle

Jo

Linsk

Reeves

Kaisa

Mercury

Michelle

Andrei

Case

Ella

Reeves

Michelle

Andrei

Case

Linsk

Ella

Mercury

Twitter Boy

Jo

Kaisa

Ella

Linsk

Case

Mercury

Reeves

Michelle

Andrei

Jo

Kaisa

Case

Linsk

Ella

Mercury

Suggested Class Room or Book Club Use

About the Author

Über Autor(innen)

J. E. Sumerau, Ph.D. (2012), University of Tampa, is an Associate Professor and the Director of Applied Sociology. She has published six prior novels about LGBTQIA life in the U.S. as well as over 80 scholarly works at the intersection of sexualities, gender, health, religion, and violence.