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"You get fed up singing jingle jangle songs and doing gigs
around the country. There's no time to wonder, no time to lie in the grass and
dream. One loses so much: one just isn't a real person any more."
Late 60s London, folk singer Sarah Kumar arrives to give a
concert. She is hot stuff and a hot mess - androgynous, awkward and alluring.
Kumar attends hip parties, sings to her fans and passes out
wasted. She is a picture of consummate coolness, hid nervously behind huge
sunglasses - a subversive imagining of a strong queer female lead amid the
commercial folk boom.
Inside the countercultural throng, Kumar's life is soon
derailed by an encounter with an older woman, the intoxicating Mrs. Stankovich.
Buried in the archives for far too long, A
Jingle-Jangle Song is the lost queer novel of the late 1960s. Eccentric
and atmospheric, sweet and satirical, the novel celebrates how queer desire
erupts in unexpected - and unignorable - ways.
