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Queer Novel Mini-Series: Virtual Book Talk with John Elizabeth Stintzi

As part of Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center’s 2020 Queer Novel Mini-Series, we are proud to host John Elizabeth Stintzi for a virtual author talk on the center’s Facebook live on June 1 at 7pm. They will read from their new novel, Vanishing Monuments.

About the book:

Alani Baum, a non-binary photographer and teacher, hasn’t seen their mother since they ran away with their girlfriend when they were seventeen—almost thirty years ago. But when Alani gets a call from a doctor at the assisted living facility where their mother has been for the last five years, they learn that their mother’s dementia has worsened and appears to have taken away her ability to speak. As a result, Alani suddenly find themselves running away again – only this time, they’re running back to their mother. Staying at their mother’s empty home, Alani attempts to tie up the loose ends of their mother’s life while grappling with the painful memories that—in the face of their mother’s disease—they’re terrified to lose. Meanwhile, the memories inhabiting the house slowly grow animate, and the longer Alani is there, the longer they’re forced to confront the fact that any closure they hope to get from this homecoming will have to be manufactured.
This beautiful, tenderly written debut novel by Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers winner John Elizabeth Stintzi explores what haunts us most, bearing witness to grief over not only what is lost, but also what remains.

Books are available for purchase, with a percentage donated back to Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center, here.

Stintzi’s poetry book, Junebat, is also available, here.

This project has been supported in part by the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, the Federal-State Partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities

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