{"product_id":"goes-on-without-the-worlds-understanding-9781955826365","title":"Goes On, Without the World's Understanding","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eCompassionate. Provocative. Moving. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this new collection, Thomas Westerfield challenges our expectations about the stories that can be told regarding sexuality, race, love, abuse, trauma, art, and intergenerational relationships.\u003cbr\u003eWe meet, among others, a men's sexual abuse group in rebellion against their earth mother therapist; a ninety-six-year-old gay cult writer who confronts a young queer interviewer; a burnt-out white professor playing dangerous academic games with his Black lesbian colleague; a teenager in a small Kentucky town in 1971 who experiences gay life for the first time through the movie, \u003cem\u003eThe Boys in the Band\u003c\/em\u003e; a retired man sharing a Las Vegas roulette table with a lonely drunk college student celebrating his twenty-first birthday; a little boy terrified of what his Barbies will do to him in the dark of night; and a sex-trafficked young man, now free, explaining why he will never return to his family.\u003cbr\u003eSome find acceptance, even peace, within the many contradictory and often warring elements of their hearts; some do not. But all are embraced with compassionate acceptance as they go on, without the world's understanding.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rattling Good Yarns Press, LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/09\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781955826365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d","brand":"Thomas Westerfield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42881800503477,"sku":"9781955826365","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_c2c1264f-db08-436b-8313-909e2ecddfa3.jpg?v=1685417646","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/goes-on-without-the-worlds-understanding-9781955826365","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}