Binding: Paperback
Description: A NEW YORK Times Notable BOOK A NEW YORK Times BOOK Review Editor's Choice 2022 Lambd a Literary Prize FOR GAY Fiction Finalist The debut novel from television Writer/ Producer OF THE CHI Narcos and BEL - AIR tells a fierce and riveting queer coming - of - age story following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s New York City. " Consistently engrossing." New York Times Book Review Full of joy and righteous anger sex and straight talk brilliant storytelling and humor A spectacularly researched Dickensian tale with vibrant characters and dozens of famous cameos it is precisely the book we ve needed for a long time. Andrew Sean Greer Pulitzer Prize - winning author of Less Earl " Trey" Singleton III arrives in New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family at 17, he is ready to leave his overbearing parents and their expectations behind. In the city Trey meets up with a cast of characters that changes his life forever. He volunteers at a renegade home hospice for AIDS patients and after being put to the test by gay rights activists becomes a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Along the way Trey attempts to navigate past traumas and searches for ways to maintain familial relationships all while seeking the meaning of life amid so much death. Vibrant humorous and fraught with entanglements Rasheed Newson's My Government Means to Kill Me is an exhilarating fast - paced coming - of - age story that lends itself to a larger discussion about what it means for a young gay Black man in the mid - 1980s to come to terms with his role in the midst of a political and social reckoning.
Title: My Government Means To Kill Me A Novel
Author(s): Newson Rasheed
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Barcode: 9781250833549
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/22/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction