Lone Stars: a story of family, secrets and being true to yourself

Lone Stars by Justin Deabler is the story of family in an ever changing America. Julian Warner wrestles with a question his husband, Philip, poses to him after they adopt a baby boy, Pablo. What will he tell their son about the people he came from? As he comforts his son late at night, Julian thinks about his family. The story transports readers to 1960s Texas to Lacy Adams, a young girl who discovers her mother isn’t telling her the truth about her family, and to Aaron Warner, a young man who dreams of college football and life away from his blue collar family. The story follows Lacy, Aaron and Julian as they live through the events of the 1980s, 90s and the new millennium as American struggles to answer the questions of immigration, sexuality, and the rapidly changing world. Will Julian find the answers he’s looking for? 

In his debut novel, Justin Deabler weaves a story of family, secrets and the freedom you find in being yourself. From the 1960s and Eisenhower’s immigration border raids, to the 1970s, Lacy and Aaron’s letter correspondence during the Vietnam War to their crumbling marriage and Julian coming to terms with his sexuality and finding love, it is a story of the changing world around us. It is a story about being true to ourselves. Not just in terms of sexuality but as immigrants, women empowerment and discovering that family is more than just the people you come from. Family can be the one you build for yourself. It is a story about life’s struggles as we search for a better life than the one we left behind. It takes a hard look at the events of the last thirty years with brutal honesty and hope. I recommend Lone Stars. 

Lone Stars is available in hardcover and eBook.