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  • Acquaintance

  • Medicine for the Blues, Book 1
  • By: Jeff Stookey
  • Narrated by: Michael Self
  • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
  • 3.0 out of 5 stars (1 rating)

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Acquaintance

By: Jeff Stookey
Narrated by: Michael Self
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Summary

As a young surgeon, Carl Holman has experienced the horrors of World War I and the loss of his lover, a fellow officer. Back home after the war, he befriends a young jazz musician who he hopes will become a companion he can share his life with. But this is Oregon: The Ku Klux Klan is gaining influence, homosexual acts are illegal, and such a relationship will jeopardize Carl’s promising medical career. Musician Jimmy Harper has his own dreams for the future and his own obstacles to overcome before he will allow himself to accept Carl’s love.

Acquaintance is a deep dive into gay and lesbian history based on extensive period research of the 1920s.

This is book one of the trilogy Medicine for the Blues, a work of LGBT historical fiction which explores the complexities of gender and sexuality through the lens of the early 1920s. It was a time when jazz was becoming popular, Freud was all the rage, social mores were shifting, liquor was illegal, and women had just gotten the vote. The trilogy tells a touching love story set against the dramatic backdrop of this influential era.
©2018 Jeff Stookey (P)2020 Jeff Stookey
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terrible recording

you get used to it, but this is an okay story, with a terrible recording. the tone goes up and down mid sentence, sounds like a home job in a cupboard, very amateurish.

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