Join us for in-store for a book signing with J Brooke, signing their latest book, I Can Tell You The Version That Will Make You Take My Side. Saturday July 18th at 4:00 PM (After the Rehoboth Beach Pride Festival) at Browseabout Books.
About the Book
I Can Tell You The Version That Will Make You Take My Side begins in a rich and specific New York City childhood full of binaries, then catapults into a fully realized, self-aware adulthood where the speaker experiences parenting, a breast cancer scare, and the complicated questioning of top-surgery.
About the Author
J Brooke’s work is known for exploring gender, family, and the incendiary combination of the two. With this, their first book, they deliver candid commentary on a unique gender journey. Born intrinsically male, assigned female at birth, and raised in affluent dysfunction in New York City, their gender expression attempted male, cis straight female, and cis gay female before embracing a nonbinary identity. Living without surgical or hormonal interventions, their struggle to find authentic place traverses female anatomy, friendship, suicide, family, testosterone, politics, packers, social media, motherhood, royalty, natural phenomena, cancer, marriage, and the pope. Brooke is Prose Reviews Editor at The Rumpus, and lives in New England with their beautiful spouse Beatrice.
This event is part of Rehoboth Beach Pride Weekend. Learn more at sussexpride.org/rehobothbeach.
If you’re coming from out of town, we recommend you use the Rehoboth Beach Park & Ride, as parking is extremely limited in the summertime.