Firefly Lane: A Novel Stuck inside and growing restless

Stuck inside and growing restless

this young-adult memoir weaves together the trials and triumphs faced by Black queer boys

2019: Lucy awakens from a dream to find her hands around her ex-lover’s throat

For eighteen years

Maggie Knox

Firefly Lane: A Novel Stuck inside and growing restlessIn the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it allbeauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in