From fear to fearlessness
Not so long ago homosexuality was illegal and disapproved of, and gay people marginalised and persecuted. Filled with candor, compassion and humour, this is the story of a lesbian who in the midst of this hostile environment was trying to make sense of her sexuality; an account of the hurdles she overcame, the support she eventually found, and the difficulties of confronting her parents and their religion. Beautifully told and authentic, we’re pleased to promote:
You Can’t Buy Love Like That: Growing Up Gay in the Sixties by Carol E. Anderson
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A young lesbian girl grows beyond fear to fearlessness as she comes of age in the ’60s amid religious, social, and legal barriers.
Carol Anderson grows up in a fundamentalist Christian home in the ’60s, a time when being gay was in opposition to all social and religious mores and against the law in most states. Fearing the rejection of her parents, she hides the truth about her love orientation, creating emotional distance from them for years, as she desperately struggles to harness her powerful attractions to women while pursuing false efforts to be with men.
The watershed point in Carol’s journey comes when she returns to graduate school and discovers the feminist movement, which emboldens her sense of personal power and the freedom to love whom she chooses. But this sense of self-possession comes too late for honesty with her father. His unexpected death before she can tell him the truth brings the full cost of Carol’s secret crashing in compelling her to come out to her mother before it is too late.
Candid and poignant, You Can’t Buy Love Like That reveals the complex invisible dynamics that arise for gay people who are forced to hide their true selves in order to survive and celebrates the hard-won rewards of finding one’s courageous heart and achieving self-acceptance and self-love.
A multiple award-winning novel:
2019 Book Excellence Awards, Winner, LGBTQ
2019 Winner, The Authors Show, Top Female Author in Biography/Memoir
Winner of the 2019 Independent Press Award – LGBTQ
2019 Nonfiction Authors Association Book Award
2018 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards 1st place LGBT
2018 Royal Dragonfly Book Awards 2nd place Biography/Autobiography/Memoir
2018 National Indie Excellence Awards Sponsor’s Choice Winner
2018 Living Now Awards Bronze Winner in Inspirational Memoir―Female
2018 IAN Book of the Year Awards Third Place Winner in General Non-Fiction
2018 IAN Book of the Year Awards Finalist in LGBT
2018 National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist in LGBTQ Non-Fiction
2018 National Indie Excellence Awards Finalist in Memoir
2018 International Book Awards Finalist: LGBTQ
2018 Readers’ Favorites Book Awards Honorable Mention in Non-Fiction―Social Issues
2017-2018 Reader Views Literary Awards second place in LGBTQIA
2017-2018 Sarton Women’s Book Awards Finalist in Memoir
2017 USA Best Book Awards Finalist in LGBT Non Fiction
2017 USA Best Book Awards Finalist in Best New Non Fiction
2018 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist in Memoirs (Overcoming Adversity/Tragedy)
2018 International Book Awards Finalist in LGBTQ: Non-Fiction
Beverly Hills Book Awards Winner-Regional Non-Fiction -Midwest and Finalist-LGBTQ-Non Fiction