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reading list update!

Just a quick reading list update!
  • May 2015: Adult Onset by Ann-Marie MacDonald
  • June 2015: For Today I am a Boy by Kim Fu
  • July 2015: Frog Music by Emma Donoghue
  • August 2015: How To Grow Up by Michelle Tea
  • September 2015: Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves
  • October 2015: A Cup of Water Under My Bed by Daisy Hernandez
  • November 2015: Half World by Hiromi Goto
Yes, I know it's already June. Sudden illness cancelled our May meeting, so our June meeting we'll discuss Adult Onset AND For Today I am a Boy.
Some other future possibilities:
  • Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha has a memoir coming out in the fall, called Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home.
  • Lost Boi by Sassafras Lowrey 
  • Casey Plett's A Safe Girl to Love
  • Yabo by Alexis De Veaux
  • The Walk-in Closet by Iranian-American author Abdi Nazemian
  • How Poetry Saved My Life by Amber Dawn, a memoir

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