Come and meet Lucy Bledsoe for a talk and signing of her new novel, A THIN BRIGHT LINE, at the Bureau of General Services - Queer Division! The event will take place in the LGBT Community Services Center, Room 210. Lucy will be in conversation with Sarah Schulman.
Sarah is Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York, College of State Island, and a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. She is a celebrated lesbian writer and activist, with nume...
Come and meet Lucy Bledsoe for a talk and signing of her new novel, A THIN BRIGHT LINE, at the Bureau of General Services - Queer Division! The event will take place in the LGBT Community Services Center, Room 210. Lucy will be in conversation with Sarah Schulman.
Sarah is Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York, College of State Island, and a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. She is a celebrated lesbian writer and activist, with numerous nonfiction and fiction works under her belt.
“This is gripping historical fiction about queer life at the height of the Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement, and its grounding in fact really makes it sing. Like the scientists whose papers she edits, the character Lucybelle Bledsoe is passionate about the truth. Whether it’s the climate history of the planet as illuminated by cores of polar ice, or the pursuit of an authentic emotional life in the miasma of McCarthyism, she operates with piercing honesty.”—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
The plot: Brilliant geology editor Lucybelle Bledsoe is offered a job too good to pass up. Her new boss is a visionary climate scientist whose mission is to extract the first-ever complete ice cores from the Greenland icecap. Knowing the risks, she warily accepts the classified government position. If she were to fall in love again with a woman, she could lose everything. Based on the true story of the author’s aunt and namesake, and on the search to uncover her remarkable past, A THIN BRIGHT LINE encompasses Cold War intrigues, the origins of climate research, the joyful pangs of love, and the impossible compromises of queer life in the 1950s and ’60s. Read more about the book and author at https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5408.htm.
