Join Greedy Reads bookseller Katya Castro for a discussion of "Rainbow Milk" by Paul Mendez, now hosted at Saunter Corner Bar!About this Event
Starting in 2025, this book club will be hosted at Saunter Corner Bar (soon to be Meander Art Bar) in Upper Fells (1801 E Lombard St). It should last for approximately an hour and will begin at 7:00 PM
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Nominated for a 34th annual Lambda Literary Award • An essential and revelatory coming-of-age novel from a thrilling new voice, Rainbow Milk follows nineteen-year-old Jesse McCarthy as he grapples with his racial and sexual identities against the backdrop of his Jehovah's Witness upbringing.
In the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman Alonso has immigrated to Britain from Jamaica with his wife and children in order to secure a brighter future. Blighted with unexpected illness and racism, Norman and his family are resilient but are all too aware that their family will need more than just hope to survive in their new country.
At the turn of the millennium, Jesse seeks a fresh start in London, escaping a broken immediate family, a repressive religious community, and his depressed hometown in the industrial Black Country. But once he arrives he finds himself at a loss for a new center of gravity and turns to sex work, music, and art to create his own notions of love, masculinity, and spirituality.
A wholly original novel as tender as it is visceral, Rainbow Milk is a bold reckoning with race, class, sexuality, freedom, and religion across generations, time, and cultures.
Rainbow Milk is available for purchase at greedyreads.com.
Learn more about Saunter Corner Bar here!
Event Venue
Saunter Corner Bar, 1801 E Lombard St, Baltimore, United States
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