First Spring Grass Fire
1st Edition
Published on 18. September 2012
144 pages
978-1-55152-481-8 (ISBN)
Description
Transgender indie electronica singer-songwriter Rae Spoon has six albums to their credit, including 2012's I Can't Keep All of Our Secrets. This first book by Rae (who uses "they" as a pronoun) is a candid, powerful story about a young person growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal family in rural Canada.
The narrator attends church events and Billy Graham rallies faithfully with their family before discovering the music that becomes their salvation and means of escape. As their father's schizophrenia causes their parents' marriage to unravel, the narrator finds solace and safety in the company of their siblings, in their nascent feelings for a girl at school, and in their growing awareness that they are not the person their parents think they are. With a heart as big as the prairie sky, this is a quietly devastating, heart-wrenching coming-of-age book about escaping dogma, surviving abuse, finding love, and risking everything for acceptance.
Rae Spoon lives in Montreal, Quebec.
The narrator attends church events and Billy Graham rallies faithfully with their family before discovering the music that becomes their salvation and means of escape. As their father's schizophrenia causes their parents' marriage to unravel, the narrator finds solace and safety in the company of their siblings, in their nascent feelings for a girl at school, and in their growing awareness that they are not the person their parents think they are. With a heart as big as the prairie sky, this is a quietly devastating, heart-wrenching coming-of-age book about escaping dogma, surviving abuse, finding love, and risking everything for acceptance.
Rae Spoon lives in Montreal, Quebec.
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Rae Spoon: Rae Spoon is a transgender musician/writer/workshop facilitator from Calgary, Canada. Rae has been nominated for a Polaris Prize, toured internationally, and released six solo albums. They were recently published in the Arsenal Pulp Press anthology Persistence and composed the instrumental score for the National Film Board film Dead Man.
Content
Contents:
Billy Graham
Rushed Salvation
1988
Music Saves
I Will Be a Wall
Art Hanger
Healing Meeting
I Wanted You to Think I Was a Cowboy
Respect the Wheel
Outsiders
Sprint
Drunk in the Spirit
Nerd Pride
Sasquatch in My Shower
Bible Camp
Pioneer Girls
Second Coming
Change Your Name
Hide and Seek
With a Little Help from the Goths
Knives and Baseball Bats
Becoming Nothing
Ice Blue Light
Billy Graham
Rushed Salvation
1988
Music Saves
I Will Be a Wall
Art Hanger
Healing Meeting
I Wanted You to Think I Was a Cowboy
Respect the Wheel
Outsiders
Sprint
Drunk in the Spirit
Nerd Pride
Sasquatch in My Shower
Bible Camp
Pioneer Girls
Second Coming
Change Your Name
Hide and Seek
With a Little Help from the Goths
Knives and Baseball Bats
Becoming Nothing
Ice Blue Light
