{"id":3012,"date":"2020-05-22T04:44:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T04:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2020-05-12T05:05:46","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T05:05:46","slug":"a-spectral-hue-by-craig-laurance-gidney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/2020\/05\/22\/a-spectral-hue-by-craig-laurance-gidney\/","title":{"rendered":"A Spectral Hue by Craig Laurance Gidney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3013 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/45285321._SY475_.jpg?resize=194%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/45285321._SY475_.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/45285321._SY475_.jpg?w=307&amp;ssl=1 307w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/>For generations, the marsh-surrounded town of Shimmer, Maryland has played host to a loose movement of African-American artists, all working in different media, but all utilizing the same haunting color. Landscape paintings, trompe l\u2019oeil quilts, decorated dolls, mixed-media assemblages, and more, all featuring the same peculiar hue, a shifting pigment somewhere between purple and pink, the color of the saltmarsh orchid, a rare and indigenous flower.<\/p>\n<p>Graduate student Xavier Wentworth has been drawn to Shimmer, hoping to study the work of artists like quilter Hazel Whitby and landscape painter Shadrach Grayson in detail, having experienced something akin to an epiphany when viewing a Hazel Whitby tapestry as a child. Xavier will find that others, too, have been drawn to Shimmer, called by something more than art, something in the marsh itself, a mysterious, spectral hue.<\/p>\n<p>From Lambda Literary Award-nominated author Craig Laurance Gidney (Sea, Swallow Me &amp; Other Stories, Skin Deep Magic) comes\u00a0<i>A Spectral Hue<\/i>, a novel of art, obsession, and the ghosts that haunt us all.<\/p>\n<h4>Representation Includes<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>A queer, black cast that includes MLM, WLW and nonbinary characters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><div class=\"spoiler-wrap\"><div class=\"spoiler-head no-icon  collapsed\" title=\"Expand\">Content Warnings<\/div><div class=\"spoiler-body\" style=\"display: none;\"> Slavery, homophobia, racism, drug addiction <\/div><noscript><div class=\"spoiler-body\"> Slavery, homophobia, racism, drug addiction <\/div><\/noscript><\/div><\/div>\n<p><strong>Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Finalist for the Lambda Literary Award<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Reviews<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bogireadstheworld.com\/novel-a-spectral-hue-by-craig-laurance-gidney\/\">Bogi Tak\u00e1cs&#8217; review\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Reviews from queer black readers needed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Where to Find<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1939905508\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=queersffdatab-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;creativeASIN=1939905508&amp;linkId=5f6ff4dd3aea9bc6b5894fe35e41b2e6\">Amazon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781939905505?aff=113011258\">IndieBound<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/spectral-hue\/oclc\/1104212035&amp;referer=brief_results\">WorldCat<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Details<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Published June 18th 2019 by Word Horde<\/li>\n<li>Paperback ISBN 9781939905505<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For generations, the marsh-surrounded town of Shimmer, Maryland has played host to a loose movement of African-American artists, all working<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[5,10,215,6,224,218,8],"age_group":[135],"queer_identity":[],"relationship":[],"intersecting_identities":[161],"genre":[182,188,184],"class_list":["post-3012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-queer-themes","tag-author-of-color","tag-needs-tag-for-sexual-content","tag-missing-information-on-ending","tag-queer-author","tag-stealth","tag-award-nominated","tag-traditionally-published","age_group-adult","intersecting_identities-black","genre-fantasy","genre-historical-fantasy","genre-urban-fantasy"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/45285321._SY475_.jpg?fit=307%2C475&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3421,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3012\/revisions\/3421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"age_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/age_group?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"queer_identity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/queer_identity?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"relationship","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/relationship?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"intersecting_identities","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/intersecting_identities?post=3012"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/queersff.theillustratedpage.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=3012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}