Personal Attention Roleplay (Violet Hour Book Club)

Sat Mar 08 2025 at 03:00 pm to 04:30 pm UTC-05:00

Archives gaies du Québec | Montreal

The Violet Hour
Publisher/HostThe Violet Hour
Personal Attention Roleplay (Violet Hour Book Club)
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Join us for the next meeting of the Violet Hour Book Club, a reading group devoted to classic and contemporary works of LGBTQ literature. The book we will be discussing is Personal Attention Roleplay (2021) by H Felix Chau Bradley.
The VHBC will be meeting at the Archives gaies du Quebec, located at 1000, Atateken (Amherst, #201-A). The event will be moderated by Christopher DiRaddo.
A reminder: All VHBC titles are available at Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore (2220, McGill College Ave) and Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe (3952 Wellington St.) at 10% off.
ABOUT THE BOOK ///
A young gymnast crushes on an older, more talented teammate while contending with her overworked mother. A newly queer twenty-something juggles two intimate relationships—with a slippery anarchist lover and an idiosyncratic meals-on-wheels recipient. A queer metal band’s summer tour unravels amid the sticky heat of the Northeastern US. A codependent listicle writer becomes obsessed with a Japanese ASMR channel.
The stories in Personal Attention Roleplay are propelled by queer loneliness, mixed-race confusion, late capitalist despondency, and the pitfalls of intimacy. Taking place in Montreal, Toronto, and elsewhere, they feature young Asian misfits struggling with the desire to see themselves reflected—in their surroundings, in others, online. Chau Bradley’s precise language and investigation of our more troubling motivations stand out in this wryly funny debut, through stories that hint at the uncanny while remaining grounded in the everyday.
Shortlisted for the TWUC Danuta Gleed Literary Award
Shortlisted for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
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Archives gaies du Québec, 1000 Rue Atateken, Montréal, QC H2L 3K5, Canada,Montreal, Quebec

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