{"id":40101,"date":"2017-06-12T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=40101"},"modified":"2017-06-12T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T15:24:00","slug":"nick-white-with-how-to-survive-a-summer-signing-today-at-off-square-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/nick-white-with-how-to-survive-a-summer-signing-today-at-off-square-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick White with How to Survive a Summer signing today at Off-Square Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Camp Levi<\/strong>\u2014nestled in the <strong>Mississippi<\/strong> countryside\u2014is designed to &#8220;cure&#8221; young teenage boys of their budding homosexuality.<strong> Will Dillard<\/strong>, a Midwestern graduate student, spent a summer at the camp as a teenager, and has since tried to erase that experience from his mind. But when a fellow student alerts him that a slasher movie based on the camp is being released, he is forced to confront his troubled history and possible culpability in the death of a fellow camper.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">As past and present are woven together, Will recounts his &#8220;rehabilitation,&#8221; eventually returning to the abandoned campgrounds to solve the mysteries of that pivotal summer, and to reclaim his story from those who have stolen it. With a masterful confluence of sensibility and place,\u00a0<em>How to Survive a Summer<\/em>\u00a0introduces an exciting new literary voice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cClear and moving, revealing White\u2019s talent in evoking the complexities of the rural South.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><b>\u2014<i>Publishers Weekly<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWhile reading Nick White\u2019s <i>How to Survive a Summer<\/i>, I found myself nodding along with White\u2019s remarkably accurate depictions not just of the conversion therapy practices many of us survivors know all too well but also of the years of denial and humor we hid behind in an effort to put the past thoroughly behind us. At turns funny and moving, White\u2019s novel is an essential catharsis.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u2014<b>Garrard Conley<\/b>, author of <i>Boy Erased<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Author Bio:<\/strong>\u00a0Nick White is an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio State University. A native of Mississippi, he earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His short stories have been published in a variety of places, including The Kenyon Review, Guernica, Indiana Review, Day One, The Hopkins Review, and elsewhere.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14544\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Camp Levi\u2014nestled in the Mississippi countryside\u2014is designed to &#8220;cure&#8221; young teenage boys of their budding homosexuality. 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