Since I Laid My Burden Down

Name: Since I Laid My Burden Down
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By Burnell Brontez

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DeShawn leads a vibrant and uninhibited life in San Francisco, embracing creativity and freedom. However, a funeral draws him back to his confined Southern hometown, where vivid memories and encounters with complex figures from his past surface. Navigating family ties, religious expectations, and personal relationships, DeShawn reflects on who truly deserves love. This debut novel is a candid and poignant journey through youth, identity, and self-discovery.
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Ideal for readers who appreciate candid explorations of identity, family, and sexuality, particularly within a Southern setting. Fans of raw and humorous coming-of-age stories will find this novel compelling.

Indie artist and punk queen Brontez Purnell's long-awaited novel is an uninhibited exploration of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama.

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DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he's called back to his cramped Southern hometown for his uncle's funeral, he's hit by flashbacks of handsome, doomed neighbours and sweltering Sunday services.

Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood, DeShawn ponders family, church, and the men in his life, prompting the question: Who deserves love?

A raw, funny, and uninhibited stumble down memory lane, Purnell's debut novel explores how one man's early sexual and artistic escapades grow into a life.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781558614314

Publisher: Feminist Press at The City University of New York

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 June 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: Feminist Press at The City University of New York

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 120.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 140

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Burnell Brontez Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction

About the Author

Brontez Purnell has been publishing, performing, and curating in the Bay Area for over ten years. He is author of the cult zine Fag School, frontman for his band The Younger Lovers, and founder and choreographer of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. Formerly a dancer with Gravy Train!!!, a queer electro indie band that gained national prominence in the mid-2000s, Purnell's other prominent artistic collaborations include his supporting role in the queer independent feature film, "I Want Your Love" (Dir. Travis Mathews, 2012).

He was a guest curator for the Berkeley Art Museum's L@TE program in 2012, awarded an invitation to the 2012 Radar Lab queer arts summer residency, honored by Out Magazine's 2012 Hot 100 List and 2013 Most Eligible Bachelors List, and most recently won the 2014 SF Bay Guardian's Goldie for Performance/Music. His previous books include one graphic novel (with illustrator Janelle Hessig) The Cruising Diaries (Gimme Action), and a novella Johnny Would You Love Me (if My Dick Were Bigger) (Rudos and Rubes).