Cinnamon Girl (Novel - North Star Press)
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"Cinnamon Girl, poet and playwright Lawrence Kessenich's first novel, recreates the dreamscape of the late 1960s in subtle, successful tones...a lovely tale of youth's travails, told by an artist still in touch with those turbulent feelings and times.”
~ Alex Beam, Boston Globe columnist and author of The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
~ Alex Beam, Boston Globe columnist and author of The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
“In this haunting, perfectly observed debut, poet extraordinaire Kessenich shows that he’s a skilled novelist as well. Whether you’re of the Vietnam era or not, Cinnamon Girl will remain seared in your memory.”
- Steve Ulfelder, Edgar finalist author of Purgatory Chasm
“Milwaukee, 1969—student protests, draft deferments, family dissension, free love... Lawrence Kessenich, a novelist with keen muscle memory, takes us on a spirited journey to a time and place in some ways as distant as ancient Rome and registers the first tectonic shifts that have left us a divided nation today.”
- David Payne, award-winning novelist and author of Barefoot to Avalon
“Cinnamon Girl, poet and playwright Lawrence Kessenich's first novel, recreates the dreamscape of the late 1960s in subtle, successful tones. John Meyer is working his way through college, navigating the shoals of a conservative family, radical student politics and a complicated love affair with all the aplomb you might expect from a 19-year-old.
Kessenich remembers the trials of being young; Try this, or not? Believe this, or accept the status quo? Risk a forbidden emotion, or remain cocooned in a world that may well cease to exist before you turn twenty? There is excellent art in this story of a Milwaukee boy tuned in to the societal television show of student violence, experimental drug use and the changing moral code and wondering: How does all this apply to me?
Low-key and insightful, Cinnamon Girl is a lovely tale of youth's travails, told by an artist still in touch with those turbulent feelings and times.”
- Alex Beam, Boston Globe columnist, author of The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship
- Steve Ulfelder, Edgar finalist author of Purgatory Chasm
“Milwaukee, 1969—student protests, draft deferments, family dissension, free love... Lawrence Kessenich, a novelist with keen muscle memory, takes us on a spirited journey to a time and place in some ways as distant as ancient Rome and registers the first tectonic shifts that have left us a divided nation today.”
- David Payne, award-winning novelist and author of Barefoot to Avalon
“Cinnamon Girl, poet and playwright Lawrence Kessenich's first novel, recreates the dreamscape of the late 1960s in subtle, successful tones. John Meyer is working his way through college, navigating the shoals of a conservative family, radical student politics and a complicated love affair with all the aplomb you might expect from a 19-year-old.
Kessenich remembers the trials of being young; Try this, or not? Believe this, or accept the status quo? Risk a forbidden emotion, or remain cocooned in a world that may well cease to exist before you turn twenty? There is excellent art in this story of a Milwaukee boy tuned in to the societal television show of student violence, experimental drug use and the changing moral code and wondering: How does all this apply to me?
Low-key and insightful, Cinnamon Girl is a lovely tale of youth's travails, told by an artist still in touch with those turbulent feelings and times.”
- Alex Beam, Boston Globe columnist, author of The Feud: Vladimir Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, and the End of a Beautiful Friendship