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First Spring Grass Fire - Rae Spoon
First Spring Grass Fire
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Transgender indie electronica singer-songwriter Rae Spoon has six albums to their credit, including 2012’s I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets. This first book by Rae (who uses "they" as a pronoun) is a candid, powerful story about a young person growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal family in... show more
Transgender indie electronica singer-songwriter Rae Spoon has six albums to their credit, including 2012’s I Can’t Keep All of Our Secrets. This first book by Rae (who uses "they" as a pronoun) is a candid, powerful story about a young person growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal family in rural Canada.The narrator attends church events and Billy Graham rallies faithfully with their family before discovering the music that becomes their salvation and means of escape. As their father's schizophrenia causes their parents' marriage to unravel, the narrator finds solace and safety in the company of their siblings, in their nascent feelings for a girl at school, and in their growing awareness that they are not the person their parents think they are. With a heart as big as the prairie sky, this is a quietly devastating, heart-wrenching coming-of-age book about escaping dogma, surviving abuse, finding love, and risking everything for acceptance.Rae Spoon lives in Montreal, Quebec.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781551524801 (1551524805)
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
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brokenbiscuits
brokenbiscuits rated it
Lovely book about growing up different without having the words for why you’re not like others. This is a short book that you could blaze through in a few hours. I liked that the writer didn’t designate whether it’s a memoir, novel, linked short-stories, fictionalized memoir, etc. The writer Rae Spo...
bossyfemme
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5.0 First Spring Grass Fire
After seeing Rae's show for years & knowing them in that formal "saying hi after your set" kind of way, it was staggering to learn some things about their life, & also, some things had gone unsaid but were so clear it was like I knew them already - from listening to so many awesome albums, no doubt....
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