The Golden Season

by Madeline Kay Sneed Narrated by Amy Landon

Overview

* **How do you love a place that doesn't love you back?

Emmy Quinn is West Texas through and through: her roots run deep in the sleepy small town of Steinbeck, where God sees all and football is king. She loves her community, but she knows that when she comes out as a lesbian, she may not be able to call Steinbeck-which is steeped in the Southern Baptist tradition-home anymore.

After a disastrous conversation with her dad, Emmy meets Cameron, a*charismatic, whip-smart grad student from Massachusetts who hates everything Texas. But Texas is in Emmy's blood. Can she build*a future with a woman who can't accept the things that make Emmy who she is?*

Steve Quinn has just been offered his dream job as*head coach of the struggling high school football team, the Steinbeck*'Stangs. The board thinks he can win them a state championship for the first time-but they tell him he can't accept the position if he's got any skeletons in his closet. Steve is still wrestling with Emmy's coming-out: he loves his daughter, but he's a man of faith, raised in the Baptist community. How can God ask him to choose between his dreams and his own daughter?*

This lush, gorgeously written debut is a love letter to the places we call home and asks how we grapple with a complicated*love for people and places that might not love us back-at least, not for who we really are.*The Golden Season*is a powerful examination of faith, queerness and the deep-seated bonds of family, and heralds the arrival of a striking new voice in fiction.*

Don't miss Madeline Kay Sneed's next riveting novel,*Today Tonight Forever, where one wedding weekend results in a dramatic reunion with layers of*love, grief, and moving on...

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

"Madeline Sneed's debut novel is a breathtaking rise-and-cheer touchdown. It's about growing up, coming out, and standing tough for what your heart knows is true, but it's also a tender, magnanimous love letter to a place where family, faith, and football are the holy trinity and wildflowers bloom for miles under an endless blue sky. I wish I could read it for the first time all over again."—Julia Glass, author of Vigil Harbor and the National Book Award–winning Three Junes



"Madeline Kay Sneed has written a Friday Night Lights for a new generation, a heartfelt story of finding yourself, coming out, and coming home...A tender, bighearted exploration of family, first love, and faith, with a gorgeously evoked west Texas landscape as backdrop." —Sarah McCraw Crow, author of The Wrong Kind of Woman

"The Golden Season is about Texas, football, God and coming out—and it’s told through the story of Emmy and Steve, a daughter and father who love each other fiercely but end up in different worlds. Read it. It’ll sweep you up, make you laugh and cry, and leave you wiser about the fissures that divide America as well as families. Madeline Kay Sneed is a blazing talent." —Mako Yoshikawa, author of One Hundred and One Ways and Once Removed



"[A] gorgeous, thoughtful debut novel...vivid, layered and ultimately satisfying."—ShelfAwareness

“The changing seasons make a perfect backdrop for this timeless story of family, acceptance, and love.”—Booklist

Product Details

BN ID:	2940176063455
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/31/2022
Edition description:	Unabridged

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