This brutal house

Resource Information

The work This brutal house represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

This brutal house

Statement of responsibility

Niven Govinden

Creator

• trueGovinden, Niven, 1973-

Author

• trueGovinden, Niven, 1973-

Subject

• Foster parents -- Fiction
• Gay fiction
• Gay men -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Missing children -- Fiction
• Missing persons -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Mother and child -- Fiction
• Drag balls -- Fiction
• Political activists -- Fiction
• Protest movements -- Fiction
• Sexual minority community -- New York (State) | New York -- Fiction
• Social justice -- Fiction
• New York City Hall (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction
• Female impersonators -- Fiction

Genre

• Gay fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

On the steps of New York's City Hall, five ageing Mothers sit in silent protest. They are the guardians of the vogue ball community - queer men who opened their hearts and homes to countless lost Children, providing safe spaces for them to explore their true selves. Through epochs of city nightlife, from draconian to liberal, the Children have been going missing; their absences ignored by the authorities and uninvestigated by the police. In a final act of dissent the Mothers have come to pray: to expose their personal struggle beneath our age of protest, and commemorate their loss until justice is served. Watching from City Hall's windows is city clerk, Teddy. Raised by the Mothers, he is now charged with brokering an uneasy truce

Cataloging source

UKMGB

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult