{"product_id":"since-i-laid-my-burden-down-paperback","title":"Since I Laid My Burden Down - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBrontez Purnell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhiting Award winner Brontez Purnell's debut novel is 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, \u003cem\u003eMTV News\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeShawn 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?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA modern American classic, \u003cem\u003eSince I Laid My Burden Down\u003c\/em\u003e is a raw and searing look into the intersections of memory, Blackness, and queerness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn antidote to the rigamarole of gay lit. --\u003cem\u003eMask\u003c\/em\u003e Magazine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlim yet potently realized, with a lot to ponder. --\u003cem\u003eThe Bay Area Reporter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSince I Laid My Burden Down\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eBlack Wave\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrontez Purnell\u003c\/b\u003e has been publishing, performing, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years. He is author of the cult zine \u003ci\u003eFag School\u003c\/i\u003e, frontman for his band The Younger Lovers, and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!, a queer electro indie band that gained national prominence in the mid-2000s, Purnell's other prominent artistic collaborations include his supporting role in the queer independent feature film, I Want Your Love (Dir. Travis Mathews, 2012). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe was a guest curator for the Berkeley Art Museum's L@TE program in 2012, awarded an invitation to the 2012 Radar Lab queer arts summer residency, honored by \u003ci\u003eOut Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's 2012 Hot 100 List and 2013 Most Eligible Bachelors List, and most recently won the 2014 \u003ci\u003eSF Bay Guardian'\u003c\/i\u003es Goldie for Performance\/Music. His previous books include one graphic novel (with illustrator Janelle Hessig) \u003ci\u003eThe Cruising Diaries\u003c\/i\u003e (Gimme Action), and a novella \u003ci\u003eJohnny Would You Love Me (if My Dick Were Bigger)\u003c\/i\u003e (Rudos and Rubes).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8 x 4.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 13, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771598405920,"sku":"9781558614314","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0f99986972a603da5c45123ae7e212c4.webp?v=1780389205","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/since-i-laid-my-burden-down-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}