Juliana Book 1 Juliana Series edition by Vanda Literature Fiction eBooks
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“An Absolutely Beautiful and Moving Novel!
--Philip Crawford, author of Mafia and the Gays
She went looking for fame, and found her true self, instead.
New York City, 1941. Alice “Al” Huffman and her childhood friends are fresh off the potato farms of Long Island and bound for Broadway. Al’s plans for stage success are abruptly put on hold when she’s told she has no talent. As she gets a job to pay for acting classes, Al settles into a normal life with her friends and a boyfriend. It all changes when she meets Juliana.
A singer on the brink of stardom, Juliana is everything Al isn’t glamorous, talented, and queer. The farm girl is quickly enthralled, experiencing thoughts and feelings she never realized were possible. Al finds herself slipping between two worlds the gay underground and the “normal” world of her childhood friends. It’s a balancing act she can handle until the two worlds begin to collide
In a city bursting with change, can Alice find what she was looking for all along?
Juliana Volume 1 1941-1944 is a captivating work of LGBT historical romance. If you like extensively researched settings, spell-binding storytelling, and characters you can’t help but fall for, then you’ll love the first book in award-winning playwright Vanda’s new Juliana series.
Buy Juliana to discover a sexy, funny, and deadly serious world today!
Juliana Book 1 Juliana Series edition by Vanda Literature Fiction eBooks
"Juliana" tells the stories of Alice "Al" Huffman and her friends who after graduating high school have moved to the Big Apple from a Long Island farm town in order to pursue their artistic dreams.The novel begins in June 1941 when World War I was known as the Great War, and impending World War II was called the European War. The kids get their first apartments, find day jobs, land some gigs and discover themselves and the larger world which for Al involves her sexual awakening and attraction to 24-year-old cabaret singer Juliana. The historic material is seamlessly woven into the characters' development, and poignantly evokes what it was like to be gay or lesbian during this period.
The United States joins the war upon Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor, and it affects everyone. The gay and lesbian characters all patriotically contribute without question to the war effort against the foreign danger -- Al volunteers at the Stage Door Canteen and others join the Armed Forces -- and yet they remain subject to degrading oppression and ugly violence from their own country due to homophobic forces. The irony can be brutal. The military discovers one character as gay, and disposes of him as an "undesirable" pursuant to a so-called "blue discharge" which may have a devastating impact for his post-war plans.
No doubt there are dark moments and uneasy threats which hang over the novel due to the pervasive homophobia. However, "Juliana" is not a bleak novel. Even under trying times gay folks with some creativity, measured caution and bold courage were able to establish a vibrant community in New York, and much of it centered around the theater crowd which is just brilliantly depicted throughout. Even in the early 1940s there were rent boys, drag shows, cigarettes and cocktails, wacky weed, gay bars and wild parties. The 1970s may have had Elton John but in 1941 Walter Liberace was performing at Spivy's Roof! As naive country girl Al exclaims at one point: "this New York City was turning everything upside down," and "such a strange world I'd just stumbled into!"
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Juliana Book 1 Juliana Series edition by Vanda Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Excellent work!!!
I’m agonizing to find the right words to review this novel but nothing comes to mind, because this novel is flawless and so very perfect, at least for me. The novel took place in 1940s which was such a romantic era, and I truly felt it, and it touched me so deeply. I adored Al and her innocence, and Juliana who was a bit arrogant at times. Great mix of secondary characters as well. Make time to read this book. Loved it.
JULIANA is a fantastic novel. First book I've read by Vanda and won't be my last! This exciting, funny, touching, erotic novel tells a well-researched tale about LGBT history during World War II, as Alice "Al" Huffman and her three friends move from rural Long Island into Manhattan in search of fame and fortune in the theatre. Told in the first person through Alice's eyes, the story reveals the very secretive role played by LGBT people in American life during the 1940s. The central focus is Alice's unexpected attraction to the beautiful club singer Juliana, their hidden sexual exploits together, and Alice's coming into her own identity as she pursues the illusive Juliana. If there were six stars, I would give this novel all of them!
It's a coming of age story as four friend's finish High School, then leave a potato farming community on Long Island and head to New York City.
Three dream of being Broadway Stars, the other wants to be writer and dreams of being the next Ernest Hemingway.
While it's titled Juliana, really it's about Al, Aggie, Dickie and Danny coming of age in NYC, fulfilling their dreams, four likable characters and great support cast and Al just takes over the story.
Felt like Vanda without realizing it, or maybe she knows it, wants the reader to become Alice or Al, as her friends call her.
I liked Vanda's writing style, she writes an engaging story, she puts the reader right in the pages, has unforgettable characters, your at the Stage Door Canteen with your few soldiers enjoying singing entertainment, making sacrifices for the war cause and reads like a play or a movie even.
Even if your not into the reading LBGT books, but like reading post World War 2 books, the author keeps it relatively clean, scenes change before they get to graphic and think you like this one.
With Juliana, Vanda gives the reader a look at what life was like in the States during WW2, the sacrifices everyone made, dimming lights, finding alternative items for things they can't get due to the war and like that it's fiction verse non-fiction.
I also like how Vanda took actually history regarding the celebrities from that time period, added real places, and expertly blended it with her fictional characters.
Will be adding more to this one.
I've never come across a series I like more than the Juliana series. I'm a fan of historical fiction, to say the least, but a book about LGBT history? Why hasn't this happened sooner?! Juliana is a beautifull written novel in the first person perspective. It encompasses relatable, deep characters that have personalities you can't help but fall in love with. A country girl is whisked away to the bright lights of New York City and gets more than she is bargained for. Not only does she fall in love with a woman, but WWII rears it's ugly head in America. The implications of both, and the journey Al is thrust into because of it, is an unforgettable read. Reading Juliana is like taking a step through a time machine to 1940s New York, complete with recognizable celebrities, songs, Broadway shows, slang words, fashion, and places. As a member of the LGBT community it is fascinating and a bit scary to remember how terrible it was for gays and lesbians in this time period. If anything, it makes me feel more thankful for our rights today and I salute our predecessors for helping to make these rights possible. If you have the time, Juliana is well worth it!
Amanda Beilfuss
"Juliana" tells the stories of Alice "Al" Huffman and her friends who after graduating high school have moved to the Big Apple from a Long Island farm town in order to pursue their artistic dreams.
The novel begins in June 1941 when World War I was known as the Great War, and impending World War II was called the European War. The kids get their first apartments, find day jobs, land some gigs and discover themselves and the larger world which for Al involves her sexual awakening and attraction to 24-year-old cabaret singer Juliana. The historic material is seamlessly woven into the characters' development, and poignantly evokes what it was like to be gay or lesbian during this period.
The United States joins the war upon Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor, and it affects everyone. The gay and lesbian characters all patriotically contribute without question to the war effort against the foreign danger -- Al volunteers at the Stage Door Canteen and others join the Armed Forces -- and yet they remain subject to degrading oppression and ugly violence from their own country due to homophobic forces. The irony can be brutal. The military discovers one character as gay, and disposes of him as an "undesirable" pursuant to a so-called "blue discharge" which may have a devastating impact for his post-war plans.
No doubt there are dark moments and uneasy threats which hang over the novel due to the pervasive homophobia. However, "Juliana" is not a bleak novel. Even under trying times gay folks with some creativity, measured caution and bold courage were able to establish a vibrant community in New York, and much of it centered around the theater crowd which is just brilliantly depicted throughout. Even in the early 1940s there were rent boys, drag shows, cigarettes and cocktails, wacky weed, gay bars and wild parties. The 1970s may have had Elton John but in 1941 Walter Liberace was performing at Spivy's Roof! As naive country girl Al exclaims at one point "this New York City was turning everything upside down," and "such a strange world I'd just stumbled into!"
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