Since I Laid My Burden Down: A Novel

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Synopsis
An uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama: exploring art and sex with &“more layered insight than the page count should allow&” (Hanif Abdurraqib, MTV News). DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he&’s called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle&’s funeral, he&’s 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? A modern American classic, Since I Laid My Burden Down is a raw and searing look into the intersections of memory, Blackness, and queerness.&“Performance artist Purnell beautifully captures a personality through introspection and memory in this slim novel . . . a compelling portrait of a particular disaffected kind of gay youth caught between religion, culture, and desire.&” —Publishers Weekly&“It&’s a true novel, chaptered, and bound, that not only holds its own as queer literature, with its unapologetically misanthropic narrative, but also expands upon it.&” —San Francisco Chronicle&“An antidote to the rigamarole of gay lit.&” —Mask Magazine&“Slim yet potently realized, with a lot to ponder.&” —The Bay Area Reporter&“Since 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.&” —Michelle Tea, author of Castle on the River Vistula
Copyright:
2017

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
208 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781558614321
Related ISBNs:
9781558614314
Publisher:
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Brontez Purnell
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction, Parenting and Family, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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