Somewhere Else: A Novel Jan Guenther Braun Paperback

Jess is sixteen and aware that she is in an impossible positionbeing the homosexual daughter of the president of the Mennonite college. She hits the road in search of a language and the freedom to speak it. On the train to Winnipeg she is found by Freya, the Icelandic princess of her dreams. Halfsteinn, fisherman and expert in the fine art of hand-rolling cigarettes, enters Jess life, helping her escape emotional captivity. Jess embraces pothead, videogameplaying housemates in the world away from her Mennonite being. Then, she meets Shea. Jess can barely utter the nameafraid of the word, the woman, the possibility, and her own past.