My Government Means to Kill Me A Novel - Rasheed Newson torrent

Category: Historical Fiction, LGBT, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: Adult Coming of Age Fiction Gay Historical Historical Fiction LGBT Literary Fiction Queer Race

Written by Rasheed Newson
Read by Jelani Alladin
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl “Trey” Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. 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

Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
Release date: 08-23-22