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Justin Deabler

Biography

Justin Deabler

Justin Deabler grew up in Houston. He dropped out of high school when he was 15, went to Simon's Rock College, and graduated from Harvard Law School. He is the General Counsel for the Queens Public Library. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband, son and two cats. LONE STARS is his first novel.

Justin Deabler

Books by Justin Deabler

by Justin Deabler - Fiction

LONE STARS follows the arc of four generations of a Texan family in a changing America. Julian Warner, a father at last, wrestles with a question his husband posed: What will you tell our son about the people you came from, now that they're gone? Finding the answers takes Julian back in time to Eisenhower's immigration border raids, an epistolary love affair during the Vietnam War, crumbling marriages, queer migrations to Cambridge and New York, up to the disorienting polarization of Obama's second term. And in these answers lies a hope: that by uncloseting ourselves --- as immigrants, smart women, gay people --- we find power in empathy.