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“Sweet, tart and forbidden in all the right places” - Entertainment Weekly In an age when the promise of love is just a tap or swipe away, this extraordinary memoir reminds us that our yearning for connection and self-acceptance is timeless.Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection It is also a profoundly affecting meditation on how Brian's generation, the queer people who emerged following the generation hit hardest by AIDS, were able to step out from the shadows and into the light. Missed Connections is an open-hearted, irreverent, often hilarious, and always bracingly honest examination of the pieces of our past we hold close - and all that we lose along the way. Now, nearly thirty years later, and at a much different stage in his life, Brian has written replies to those letters. Using the letters as a springboard to reflect on all that has changed for him as a gay man over the past three decades, Brian's responses cover a range of topics, including body image, aging, desire, the price of secrecy, and the courage it takes to be unapologetically yourself. He received twenty-five responses, but there were thirteen letters that went unanswered and spent years tucked away, forgotten, inside a cardboard box. He was a twenty-one-year-old university student, still very much in the closet, and looking for love. In 1992, Brian Francis placed a personal ad in a local newspaper. A Loan Stars Top 10 Pick of the Month and one of Daily Hive's 10 Essential LGBTQ2+ Books to Celebrate Pride. 17 2021)Īn entertaining and moving memoir about coming out, looking inwards, and the search for connection, inspired by the responses to a personal ad. Publisher ‏ : ‎ McClelland & Stewart (Aug.

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