Since I Laid My Burden Down

by Brontez Purnell

Book Overview

Whiting Award winner Brontez Purnell's debut novel is an uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama: exploring art and sex with "more layered insight than the page count should allow" (Hanif Abdurraqib, MTV News).

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558614311
• ISBN13: 9781558614314
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Amethyst Editions
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.8" x 8.0"