East End Books Ptown Presents: "Some Strange Music Draws Me in" w/Griffin Hansbury 6/8 at 6pm - This is an off-site event at Provincetown Public Library - 356 Commercial Street.
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"It's the summer of 1984 in Swaffham, Massachusetts, when Mel (short for Melanie) meets Sylvia, a tough-as-nails trans woman whose shameless swagger inspires Mel's dawning self-awareness. But Sylvia's presence sparks fury among her neighbors and throws Mel into conflict with her mother and best friend. Decades later, in 2019, Max (formerly Mel) is on probation from his teaching job for, ironically, defying speech codes around trans identity. Back in Swaffham, he must navigate life as part of a fractured family and face his own role in the disasters of the past"--
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This gorgeous, propulsive novel is filled with beauty and danger, youth and wisdom, and the lifesaving lifelines of counterculture. With writing so tense and honest and real, I recognized this place and these people deeply, and felt them all in my heart long after the book was finished.--Michelle Tea, author of Knocking Myself Up
Some Strange Music Draws Me In is a story of how latent queerness can point toward the exit from poverty and despair. It's about intergenerational queer care, about how even with a clean getaway we nurse our wounded pasts.... [A] book filled with compassion.--McKenzie Wark, author of Love and Money, Sex and Death
God damn I loved this book. It's tough and sweet and smart about the places we come from and how we fight and flail to discover ourselves inside them. Griffin Hansbury has achingly captured the miracle of queer generations seeing and saving each other, without hiding the real struggle to connect across generations, our different times and traumas. A gorgeous novel readers will absolutely live inside of. I will be thinking about Max and Sylvia for a long time, they are now so dear to me.--CJ Hauser, author of The Crane Wife and Family of Origin
Some Strange Music Draws Me In is luminous, propulsive, tender.... Griffin Hansbury's prose is both scathing and soulful, delivered with care and grace and aplomb. This novel's warmth is palpable, and Hansbury has crafted a truly rare thing--a gift and a guide.--Bryan Washington, author of Family Meal, Memorial, and Lot
This funny, defiant, and passionate novel will make you want to play Patti Smith's "Horses" at full volume as a soundtrack while you're still reading. Some Strange Music Draws Me In is the coming-of-age, reckoning-with-gender story we have all needed for decades, the kind that can change and save your life.--James Hannaham, author of Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
Griffin Hansbury is the author of Vanishing New York and Feral City (as Jeremiah Moss). A Pushcart Prize winner and Lambda Literary Award finalist, his writing has appeared in several publications, including n+1, the New York Times, and the New Yorker and Paris Review online. A trailblazer in the field of psychoanalysis, he was the first analyst to practice and publish as openly transgender. He lives in Manhattan.
Event date:Saturday, June 8, 2024 - 6:00pm to 7:00pmEvent address:389 Commercial St.Provincetown, MA 02657
