February: My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson

Hi.

For our second meeting of the year, we will be back at Another Country (Riemanstraße 7, 10961) on February 23rd at 5 pm to discuss My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson. Please note the deviation from our usual "third Sunday of the month" schedule as I am out of town that weekend.
Hope to see you there!

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From the publisher:
Earl "Trey" Singleton III arrives in New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, at 17, he is ready to leave his overbearing parents and their expectations behind.

In the city, Trey meets up with a cast of characters that changes his life forever. He volunteers at a renegade home hospice for AIDS patients, and after being put to the test by gay rights activists, becomes a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Along the way Trey attempts to navigate past traumas and searches for ways to maintain familial relationships—all while seeking the meaning of life amid so much death.

Vibrant, humorous, and fraught with entanglements, Rasheed Newson’s My Government Means to Kill Me is an exhilarating, fast-paced coming-of-age story that lends itself to a larger discussion about what it means for a young gay Black man in the mid-1980s to come to terms with his role in the midst of a political and social reckoning.
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