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Never Turn Your Back on the Tide
Imagine thinking you had the ideal life. The perfect partner, on whom you relied and trusted. An infant child, newly adopted. You’d given up your job, to take care of your child, to ensure that he had a terrific life.
Then one day, you wake up, and suddenly, the life you’ve led is turned upside down. Everything thought true becomes suspect. And you learn, quite quickly, that you can never again trust the person sleeping beside you.
Songs for the New Depression
Starred Review – Library Journal
Next Generation Indie Book Award – LGBTQ
Advocate.com raves that “Kergan Edwards-Stout has crafted a work of fiction reminiscent of some classic tales in Songs for the New Depression. Even better, Edwards-Stout’s debut boasts the kind of dark humor that made Augusten Burroughs (Running With Scissors, Dry) a household name.”
Gifts Not Yet Given
Top 5 Books of the Year – Alfred Lives Here
Top LGBTQ Books of the Year – Queer Books with Julie
Gifts Not Yet Given is a warm and nuanced collection of short stories, each set around a holiday, illuminating the small, surprising, and pivotal moments in which personal awakenings occur and hearts unexpectedly expand. It was named by the nationally syndicated column The Bookworm Sez as a “perfect book to give everyone.”
Kergan Edwards-Stout is an award-winning author whose new “fictional” memoir, Never Turn Your Back on the Tide (Or, How I Married a Lying Psychopathic Wannabe Murderer and Kinda Lived to Tell), won a 2020 IndieReader Discovery Award and is a finalist for the 2020 Next Generation Indie Book Award. His debut novel, Songs for the New Depression, won a Next Generation Indie Book Award, was named one of the Top Books for 2012 by Out in Print, and received a starred review from Library Journal. A collection of holiday-themed short stories, Gifts Not Yet Given, also landed on several “Best Books” lists. But his greatest accomplishment was to be named a 2011 Human Rights Campaign Father of the Year, as his husband and sons nominated him.
