Pretty: A Memoir by Brookins, Kb
Pretty: A Memoir by Brookins, Kb

Pretty: A Memoir

Winner of the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award - By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of...
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Author: Kb Brookins
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Language: English
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Pretty: A Memoir by Brookins, Kb

Pretty: A Memoir

$42.46
Pretty: A Memoir by Brookins, Kb

Pretty: A Memoir

$42.46
Author: Kb Brookins
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Winner of the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award - By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race.

Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender perspective--the tropes, the presumptions--Pretty is as much a powerful and tender love letter as it is a call for change.

"I should be able to define myself, but I am not. Not by any governmental or cultural body," Brookins writes. "Every day, I negotiate the space between who I am, how I'm perceived, and what I need to unlearn. People have assumed things about me, and I can't change that. Every day, I am assumed to be a Black American man, though my ID says 'female, ' and my heart says neither of the sort. What does it mean--to be a girl-turned-man when you're something else entirely?"

Informed by KB Brookins's personal experiences growing up in Texas, those of other Black transgender masculine people, Black queer studies, and cultural criticism, Pretty is concerned with the marginalization suffered by a unique American constituency--whose condition is a world apart from that of cisgender, non-Black, and non-masculine people. Here is a memoir (a bildungsroman of sorts) about coming to terms with instantly and always being perceived as "other"

Author: Kb Brookins
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 05/28/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9780593537145


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 12/01/2023 pg. 11
Publishers Weekly 03/25/2024
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2024
BookPage 06/01/2024

About the Author
KB BROOKINS is a Black, queer, and trans writer and cultural worker from Texas. They are the author of Freedom House and How to Identify Yourself with a Wound. Brookins has poems, essays, and installation art published in Academy of American Poets, Teen Vogue, Poetry Magazine, Prizer Arts & Letters, Okayplayer, Poetry Society of America, Autostraddle, and other venues. They have earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN America, Equality Texas, and others.

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