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Author:
Brian Broome, Yona Harvey
Publisher:
Mariner Books
Date:
May 18, 2021
Broome's early years growing up in Ohio as a dark-skinned Black boy harboring crushes on other boys propel forward this debut. His recounting of his experiences reveal a perpetual outsider awkwardly squirming to find his way in. Indiscriminate sex and escalating drug use help to soothe his hurt, young psyche, usually to uproarious and devastating effect.
What The Reviewers Say
Broome refuses to pare down his interrogation of manhood, and he offers up his own life as a window, writing with lyricism, vividness and unflinching honesty as he ushers readers through the stages of his becoming.
... reads as a series of essays in which voice, time, and even point of view shift in service of evocative, unflinching storytelling.
Brian Broome loses no time establishing his bona fides as the most fearless of memoirists who is capable of such magic.
... ferocious honesty and a cutting insight.
