Rae Elle Riley

Gebundenes Buch

Just Nod If You Can Hear Me

A Memoir

Beschreibung

Chuck Keiran is a steamfitter-a tough and tormented working-class antihero just trying to survive in an industrial nightmare of his own making. Worse yet, Chuck has a secret: Chuck isn't Chuck at all. Chuck is Rae, a trans woman too stubborn to drown in drink and drugs any longer. But is she strong enough to shoulder the abuse and scorn of a world that once loved Chuck and now wishes the woman away-or worse? Just Nod If You Can Hear Me pulses with the manic energy of a mind wrestling with survival and identity. A fearless mix of gritty realism and unexpected elegance, this memoir is a visceral exploration of the courage it takes to stand up for yourself when your whole world wants you to stay down.

Autor

Rae Elle Riley is a debut memoirist with a passion for storytelling that comes out visceral and raw in thin strips sliced nearest to the heart. A twelve year veteran, union steamfitter, Riley writes in a blended vernacular of blue-collar slang banter and prosaic singsong inspired by a lifelong pursuit of the greatest prose writers of any language. Her tone is orchestral ranging from the muffled tinklings of fragile spiderweb philosophies to the manic crescendo of absolutes filled with them the spittle and fire and force of such things stabbed into the page. All of it sucks the reader into this event horizon cacophony of sound, and word, and tempo, and so maybe a new voice is birthed in the silence of whatever that black hole spews out into the other side.Rae Elle Riley lives in Swarthmore Pennsylvania with her wife Michelle and two children. When not writing she produces metal art and plays guitar. She is currently living the sequel to Just Nod If You Can Hear Me and promises a follow up book as equally soaked in lifeblood as the first.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cavale Publishing Company LLC
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9798992394900
• Artikelnr.: 74317775