Overview
Whiting Award winner Brontez Purnellās debut novel is an uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama: exploring art and sex with āmore layered insight than the page count should allowā (Hanif Abdurraqib, MTV News).
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DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when heās called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncleās funeral, heās hit by flashbacks of handsome, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood, DeShawn ponders family, church, and the men in his life, prompting the question: Who deserves love?
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A modern American classic, Since I Laid My Burden Down is a raw and searing look into the intersections of memory, Blackness, and queerness.
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"An antidote to the rigamarole of gay lit."Ā āMaskĀ Magazine
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"Slim yet potently realized, with a lot to ponder." āThe Bay Area Reporter
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āSince I Laid My Burden Down has a fearless (sometimes reckless) humor as Brontez Purnell interrogates what it means to be black, male, queer; a son, an uncle, a lover; Southern, punk, and human. An emotional tightrope walk of a book and an important American story rarely, if ever, told.ā āMichelle Tea, author of Black Wave
This book title, Since I Laid My Burden Down, ISBN: 9781558614314, by Brontez Purnell, published by The Feminist Press at CUNY (June 13, 2017) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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