How I Learned to Snap: A Small Town Coming-Out and Coming-of-Age Story - Softcover

Read, Kirk

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0142002992 ISBN 13: 9780142002995

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2003

Synopsis

With bold Southern humor, journalist and performer Kirk Read takes readers on a guided tour of his precocious and courageous adolescence. Recalling his years as an openly gay high school student, Read describes how he navigated the hallways with his sense of humor and dignity intact. He fondly recalls his initiations into sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, as well as his "shy as neon" acts of rabble rousing during high school. How I Learned to Snap is a refreshingly victim-free story in which queer teenagers are creative, resilient, and ultimately heroic.

About this title

About the Author:

Kirk Read is a nationally syndicated journalist and performer whose work has appeared in more than one hundred publications, including Out, Genre, and Christopher Street.

Review:

"If I had read something like this as a teenager, I'd have had a much easier time."

"Read navigates his adolescent minefield of snap queens, rednecks, love, sex, family, booze, and punk rock with an astute eye for detail and a stunning capacity for compassion."

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0142002992
• ISBN 13: 9780142002995
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240