Along the way Trey attempts to navigate past traumas and searches for ways to maintain familial relationships-all while seeking the meaning of life amid so much death.Vibrant, humorous, and fraught with entanglements, Rasheed Newson's My Government Means to Kill Me is an exhilarating, fast-paced coming-of-age story that lends itself to a larger discussion about what it means for a young gay Black man in the mid-1980s to come to terms with his role in the midst of a political and social reckoning. He volunteers at a renegade home hospice for AIDS patients, and after being put to the test by gay rights activists, becomes a member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). In the city, Trey meets up with a cast of characters that changes his life forever. Rasheed Newson’s first-person narrative, My Government Means to Kill Me, follows the life of Trey Singleton after he moved to New York City in the 1980s. Were giving away 100 early ARC copies of a coming-of-age novel MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME. My Government Means to Kill Me.Flatiron Books, 2022. My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson(Goodreads Author) Release date: Were giving away 100 early ARC copies of a coming-of-age novel MY GOVERNMENT MEANS TO KILL ME. Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, at 17, he is ready to leave his overbearing parents and their expectations behind. The following version of the book was used to create this guide: Newson, Rasheed. A spectacularly researched Dickensian tale with vibrant characters and dozens of famous cameos, it is precisely the book we've needed for a long time.'e -Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Less Earl 'e Trey'e Singleton III arrives in New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket.

'e Consistently engrossing.'e -New York Times Book Review'e Full of joy and righteous anger, sex and straight talk, brilliant storytelling and humor.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE * 2022 LAMBDA LITERARY PRIZE FOR GAY FICTION FINALISTThe debut novel from television WRITER/PRODUCER OF THE CHI, NARCOS, and BEL-AIR tells a fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the personal and political awakening of a young, gay, Black man in 1980s New York City.

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