About this Event
Book club is BAAAAACK! Our book clubs are such special, safe, amazing gatherings and and we can't wait to start them up again. This time we will be reading "Amateur" by Thomas Page McBee, you can find a description of the book below.
We are limiting attendance to 10 people since this will be an indoor meeting, and we ask that you please continue to mask up at our events if you are not vaccinated.
As always, the book is included in the price of a ticket (as is beverage and snacks) and you can pick up your copy from either Awakening location after next week. If you already have the book, or would rather borrow from the library/listen to the audiobook, then just use the code NOBOOK at checkout to take the price of the book out of the ticket.
Book description from Good Reads: "From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with “hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love” (Maggie Nelson), an exquisite and troubling narrative of masculinity, violence, and society.
In this groundbreaking new book, the author, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling to untangle the vexed relationship between masculinity and violence. Through his experience boxing—learning to get hit, and to hit back; wrestling with the camaraderie of the gym; confronting the betrayals and strength of his own body—McBee examines the weight of male violence, the pervasiveness of gender stereotypes, and the limitations of conventional masculinity. A wide-ranging exploration of gender in our society, Amateur is ultimately a story of hope, as McBee traces a new way forward, a new kind of masculinity, inside the ring and outside of it.
In this graceful, stunning, and uncompromising exploration of living, fighting, and healing, we gain insight into the stereotypes and shifting realities of masculinity today through the eyes of a new man."
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Awakening Boutique Broadway, 38 North Broadway, Denver, United States
USD 18.00