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Twilight Manors in Palm Springs, God’s Waiting Room (Book 1)
St Sukie de la Croix
“St Sukie de la Croix seems to follow the footsteps of the nice English tradition of humorous books set in small villages or small social circles, such as P.G. Wodehouse’s ‘Jeeves’ series or E.F. Benson’s ‘Mapp and Lucia’ collection of novels…The book was a hoot.”
—Rainbow Book Reviews
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Description
Book 1 in the Twilight Manors in Palm Springs Series
A Hilarious Romp Through Retirement!
Why do gay men retire to Palm Springs? Because it’s a great place to live and a fabulous place to die. When Brian and Stéphane retired and moved to Palm Springs, California, they never expected their lives to be turned upside down. They expected a quiet, peaceful retirement. But God had other plans. Instead of sunny days lounging by the pool, the aging couple discovered glory holes, nonagenarian cross-dressing neighbors, a lost pussy, an S&M-themed Thai restaurant, owl-collecting lesbians, nuns, a sad-looking anal chrysanthemum, Carol Channing, murder, and annoying mallards…mostly annoying mallards. Twilight Manors in Palm Springs, God’s Waiting Room, is a hysterical, laugh-out-loud romp. It follows the adventures of Brian, Stéphane, their friends and neighbors through a series of bizarre events that could only happen in Palm Springs, God’s Waiting Room.
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St Sukie Reads the Chapter "Larry's Party"
About the Author
St Sukie de la Croix has been a social commentator and researcher on Chicago’s LGBT history for three decades. He has published oral-history interviews; lectured; conducted historical tours; documented LGBT life through columns, photographs, humor features, and fiction; and written the book Chicago Whispers (University of Wisconsin Press, 2012) on local LGBT history. St Sukie de la Croix, the man the Chicago Sun-Times described as “the gay Studs Terkel,” came to Chicago from his native Bath, England, in 1991. He has had columns in local publications and online news and entertainment sources, including Chicago Free Press, Gay Chicago, Nightlines/Nightspots, Outlines, Blacklines, Windy City Times, and GoPride.com, as well as numerous others outside the city. In 2008, he served as a historical consultant and an on-screen interviewee for the WTTW television documentary “Out & Proud in Chicago.” In 2005 and 2006 he had two of his plays, “A White Light in God’s Choir” and “Two Weeks in a Bus Station with an Iguana,” performed by Chicago’s Irreverence Dance & Theatre Company. A popular and engaging lecturer, he has spoken at a range of venues, from Chubb Insurance to Boeing and from Horizons Gay Youth Services to the Chicago Area Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. His crowning achievement came in 2012 when the University of Wisconsin published his in-depth, vibrant record of LGBT Chicagoans, Chicago Whispers: A History of LGBT Chicago Before Stonewall. With a foreword by noted historian John D’Emilio, the book received glowing reviews and cemented de la Croix’s deserved position as a top-ranking historian and leader. In 2012, de la Croix was inducted into the Chicago LGBT Hall of Fame. Two years later he moved to Cathedral City, California, and in 2017 published The Blue Spong and the Flight from Mediocrity, a novel set in 1924 Chicago, followed by The Orange Spong and Storytelling at the Vamp Art Café in 2020. In 2018 he published The Memoir of a Groucho Marxist, a work about growing up Gay in Great Britain, and in 2019, Out of the Underground: Homosexuals, the Radical Press and the Rise and Fall of the Gay Liberation Front. Also in 2019 he published St Sukie’s Strange Garden of Woodland Creatures with celebrated illustrator Roy Alton Wald. It was in 2019 that St Sukie de la Croix and Owen Keehnen launched their Tell Me About It Project, which led to the 2019 publication of Tell Me About It, Tell Me About It 2, and in 2020, Tell Me About It 3. In 2020, St Sukie’s latest work of fiction, The Orange Spong and Storytelling at the Vamp-Arts Café, the second book in the popular Spong Series, was published. He is also the author of the popular comic Twilight Manors in Palm Springs, which follows the hysterical adventures of Brian & Stéphane, a retired gay couple. The series includes Twilight Manors in Palm Springs, God’s Waiting Room, and Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Strange Case of Donna Reed’s Missing Wig, Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Peculiar Case of the Follies Dancer, Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Lady in Gray & The Bessie Mae Diamond, Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Great New Orleans Powder Puff Caper, and Twilight Manors in Palm Springs: The Hunt fo the Hairdo Killer,
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Praise for Twilight Manors in Palm Springs God's Waiting Room
“St Sukie de la Croix seems to follow the footsteps of the nice English tradition of humorous books set in small villages or small social circles such as P.G. Wodehouse’s ‘Jeeves’ series or E.F. Benson’s ‘Mapp and Lucia’ collection of novels…The book was a hoot. I surprised myself chuckling almost throughout the novel, sometimes laughing out loud, it was so funny. Of course, de la Croix’s verve and colorful, often naughty, sometimes outright evil wit were perfectly up my lane, and if in the beginning I was wondering what kind of weird relationship Stéphane and Brian had where you couldn’t feel any sparks, romantic feelings, or even love, I soon remembered the British TV show I mentioned in the first paragraph, and that’s when I started to genuinely enjoy the read. It was comical and entertaining, and the characters’ comments often almost shockingly to the point—you know, the sort of things you might think, but when you catch yourself saying them out loud, you get beet-red and slap a hand over your mouth.”
St Sukie de la Croix takes on retirement in the Palm Springs area, and the results are hilarious! Have you ever wondered what nonagenarian cross-dressing neighbors, a lost pussy, an S&M-themed Thai restaurant, owl-collecting lesbians, nuns, a sad-looking anal chrysanthemum, Carol Channing, annoying ducks, and murder have in common? Then Twilight Manors in Palm Springs God’s Waiting Room is the laugh-out-loud comic novel to read! When Brian and Stéphane retired and moved to Palm Springs, California, they hoped for sunny days and a laid-back lifestyle, but what they never expected was for their lives to be turned upside down!
Readers are raving about this new novel from award-winning author, St Sukie de la Croix. As one reviewer wrote, “Sukie’s book does for Palm Springs what George Orwell did for pig farms. I read most of it at the local Starbucks, a bad idea since some scenes made me laugh out loud.”