{"product_id":"jane-delynn-in-thrall","title":"JANE DELYNN \/ In Thrall","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJane DeLynn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Thrall, 2024\u003cbr\u003ePaperback, 280 pages \u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 13.9 cm\u003cbr\u003eDivided Publishing \u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDear Miss Maxfeld . . . What I’m really afraid of is that I am a homosexual human being. I wish you were one too but I don’t think it’s possible there could be so many in one school, do you? Probably there is only one person who is homosexual in one place at one time and that one person (I am afraid) is me . . .\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter sixteen-year-old Lynn writes her thirty-seven-year-old English teacher a letter they embark on one of the funniest and saddest love affairs in fiction, shrouded in secrecy and guilt. Set in the year Kennedy was shot, all Lynn knows about “lezbos” is that they wear their hair in crew cuts, buy suits like her father’s, and sprout mustaches over their upper lips. Trying to pass, Lynn continues to neck with her boyfriend and make bigoted jokes with her friends. Feigning innocence with her parents, each night she checks the mirror for tell-tale signs of perversion. Profound, witty, poignant, and highly charged,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Thrall\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the first in Jane DeLynn’s trilogy of novels on sexuality and authority. It is as believable in its depiction of a closeted teen as it is heartbreaking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an introduction by Colm Tóibín.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JANE DELYNN","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51614473486617,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0732\/5024\/2841\/files\/jane-delynn_cover_front_3-600x.webp?v=1762404959","url":"https:\/\/landslidebooksandobjects.com\/products\/jane-delynn-in-thrall","provider":"Landslide","version":"1.0","type":"link"}