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DECEMBER PICK
Town & Country by Brian Schaefer
In the rural town of Griffin—once quiet, now glimmering with new money and weekend transplants dubbed “Duffels”—a surprising congressional race becomes the fault-line of community, identity, and change. Local pub-owner and town supervisor Chip Riley steps into the ring against the charismatic newcomer Paul Banks, who carries ambition, wealth, and an older husband wielding political taste and influence. Meanwhile, the Riley family wrestles with shifting loyalties: Diane, the real-estate agent caught between her faith and her clients; Joe, grieving a friend lost to overdose and slipping further; Will, fresh out of college and newly out as gay, torn between his father’s world and the seductive freedom of the Duffels’ circle. Over six months from Memorial Day to Election Day, this town becomes a microcosm of America—gentrification, addiction, identity, belonging, power, and the question of who really owns a place. Big-hearted, sharp, and urgent, Town & Country asks: what is home, and what do we owe our neighbours?
Dr. Eric Cervini is an award-winning author, producer, and historian of LGBTQ+ politics. His first book, The Deviant’s War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America, was a NYT bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Cervini is also the Emmy-winning creator and Executive Producer of The Book of Queer, a queer history docu-series boasting the largest all-queer cast in Hollywood history, which premiered on Discovery+ in June 2022 and is now streaming on Max.
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