Free (nook/Kindle/iTunes) Looped [Chicago Multicultural Literary Drama Novel w/LGBT]

[ATDrake]

Looped by Andrew Winston, a former editor of the Chicago Review literary magazine (and apparently not the business consultant author and speaker who goes by the same name) is his debut contemporary literary fiction novel set in Chicago with strong multicultural themes reflecting the make-up of that city, featuring the intertwined personal and family dramas of various residents including LGBT, immigrant, traditionally religious, and other characters, played out over the course of the year 2000, free courtesy of publisher Agate's Bolden imprint.

This has fairly favourable reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Booklist in the editorial section.

Currently free, probably just until the weekend @ B&N (may also drop in the UK), Amazon (not available to Canadians, but also free in the UK), and iTunes (not available to Canadians). Probably also Google Play US (this looks like it's probably the right URL), as Agate freebies have been reported to show up in recent weeks.

Description
A remarkably assured and accomplished debut novel that encompasses the bursting life of contemporary Chicago, Looped tells the separate stories of a diverse group of Chicagoans—black, brown, and white, gay, straight, and bi—as their lives unfold in diverging and (occasionally) converging ways over the course of the year 2000.

Among the characters are the family of a middle-class black postman whose runaway daughter has just learned she’s pregnant; a gifted half-Vietnamese high-schooler whose troubled father spies on the son he abandoned years earlier; a tradition-bound Greek diner owner whose upwardly mobile daughter, embarrassed by her ethnic roots, is snarled in a loveless marriage; a gay chef whose shaky relationship is strained by the visit of his closeted lover’s uncle, a Catholic priest; and the motley members of an up-and-coming band shaken by the breakup of its ambitious lead guitarist and his sexually confused songwriter girlfriend.

Ambitious, sprawling, engrossing, multifaceted, insightful, and readable, Looped explodes with a life and vitality that mirrors the multicultural reality of 21st-century Chicago, where the families that sustain us are more likely to be those we’ve created than those we’re born to.

[peachiekene]

It's showing up free at Google now (at least for me)
Thanks for the share!