The Sleeping Car Porter Suzette Mayr by Suzette Mayr 9781552454589, 9781770567269, 9781770567276, 9782022019932, 2022019938, 1552454584, 1770567267, 1770567275 instant download after payment.

The Sleeping Car Porter brings to life an important part of Black history in North America, from the perspective of a gay man living in a culture that renders him invisible in two ways.

Affecting, imaginative, & visceral enough that you'll feel the rocking of the train, The Sleeping Car Porter is a stunning accomplishment.

Baxter's name isn't George. But it's 1929, & Baxter is lucky enough, as a Black man, to have a job as a sleeping car porter on a train that crisscrosses the country.
So when the passengers call him George, he has to just smile & nod & act invisible. What he really wants is to go to dentistry school, but he'll have to save up a lot of nickel & dime tips to get there, so he puts up with "George."

On this particular trip out west, the passengers are more unruly than usual, especially when the train is stalled for two extra days; their secrets start to leak out & blur with the sleep-deprivation hallucinations Baxter is having. When he finds a naughty postcard of two gay men, Baxter's memories & longings are reawakened; keeping it puts his job in peril, but he can't part with the postcard or his thoughts of Edwin Drew, Porter Instructor.

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Suzette Mayr is the author of the novels Dr. Edith Vane & the Hares of Crawley Hall, Monoceros, Moon Honey, The Widows, & Venous Hum. The Widows was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book in the Canada-Caribbean region, & has been translated into German. Moon Honey was shortlisted for the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s Best First Book & Best Novel Awards. Monoceros won the ReLit Award, the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize, was longlisted for the 2011 Giller Prize, & shortlisted for a Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Fiction, & the Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction.