{"id":4072,"date":"2011-07-28T17:45:08","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T17:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=4072"},"modified":"2011-07-28T17:45:08","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T17:45:08","slug":"natural-disasters-by-julia-salazar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/natural-disasters-by-julia-salazar\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Disasters by Julia Salazar"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Set against mudslides, fires and earthquakes in Los Angeles, Natural Disasters is about a friendship between a gay man and a lesbian who work in a Los Angeles AIDS organization called the Alliance. Set in 1993, the protagonist Jesse must navigate her way through burn out, a break-up of a relationship of ten years and her friend Gabe and eventual death. \u00bfThere are seasons when life appears to be nothing by an unremitting series of calamities, when the worlds\u00bfinternal and external\u00bfare crumbling, leaving no safe ground on which to stand. Julia Salazar’s poignant and poetic novel, Natural Disasters, describes such a season in the life of its protagonist, Jesse Perez, suggests that the key is not only to withstand and survive it, but to heed the call of the universe to `wake up\u00bf and learn to live more deeply.rton, EMBERS r’s brave and honest book reminds us that loss\u00bfbelongings smashed in earthquakes, friends stolen by AIDSfind the strength to change our lives.ell, Journalist<\/div>\n
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