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Church Girl is a Gay
The Wonder Years
Ginger Hendrix
Ginger Hendrix’s finely crafted memoir, Church Girl is a Gay, recounts her life in unflinching detail. In a state centered in the Bible Belt, in the center of a proudly Christian city, Hendrix tells her story with white-hot honesty as she writes, “. . . off every road I’d ever traveled was littered with the footprints of youth group leaders leading games out of my garage. And it wasn’t until my heart broke so badly that I couldn’t stand up under the pain that my feet went looking for the soft, sandy ground of places where people weren’t sure of most anything. I was married with three kids, a leader in an evangelical non-profit. I was 48, and I knew my insides felt built to love a woman. But I still didn’t know I was gay—because I’d never asked the question. There was no question available to ask.” GINGER HENDRIX currently lives on the central coast of California with her wife and five children. 978-1-62288-238-0 paper $20.00 6x9. 200 pp. Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. February
Arian Katsimbras
The Wonder Years, an expertly crafted collection of poems, leads readers on a heart-wrenching journey of love and loss. From childhood to young adulthood and becoming a parent, this collection addresses coping with loss and the feeling that what haunts us never really goes away. In these poems, Arian Katsimbras beautifully encapsulates the essence of origin and the pain that remains after wounds start to heal, giving readers the image of his personal experiences in difficult honesty and full clarity. Katsimbras, with this collection, has painted his life in detail like a brutal renaissance, and each poem holds nothing back while maintaining a moving, emotion-filled magnificence. Readers will cling to every word, holding onto the power behind them. The Wonder Years is a painful but necessary telling of Katsimbras’ life that balances past memories with current knowledge. ARIAN KATSIMBRA S received his MFA from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He currently teaches at the University of Nevada, Reno. 978-1-62288-239-7 paper $19.95 6x9. 88 pp. Poetry. April
