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Based on 9 reviews

Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir

Brian Broome

What The Reviewers Say

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Based on 9 reviews

Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir

Brian Broome

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Darnell L. Moore,
The New York Times Book Review
Broome refuses to pare down his interrogation of manhood, and he offers up his own life as a window, writing with lyricism, vividness and unflinching honesty as he ushers readers through the stages of his becoming.
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TESS COODY-ANDERS,
Porter House Review
... reads as a series of essays in which voice, time, and even point of view shift in service of evocative, unflinching storytelling.
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Tony Norman,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Brian Broome loses no time establishing his bona fides as the most fearless of memoirists who is capable of such magic.
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Sarah Rachel Egelman,
Bookreporter
... ferocious honesty and a cutting insight.
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Dana Dunham,
Chicago Review of Books
Beautifully interwoven with the spare but piercing lines of Gwendolyn Brooks’s poem 'We Real Cool,' Punch Me Up to the Gods nevertheless unravels the complicated realities of being Black and male and gay.
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Editorial Staff,
Chicago Review of Books
Ambitiously structured around Gwendolyn Brooks’s iconic poem 'We Real Cool,' Brian Broome’s debut memoir of growing up Black and gay in 1980’s Ohio is an electrifying read. Vulnerable and poetic but filled with a ferocious fire, it grabs you from the first page to the last. Perfect for fans of Sarah Broom, Kiese Laymon, and Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight..
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Siobhan Egan,
Library Journal
... a compelling memoir bursting at the seams with raw power. From the first line, Broome asserts his unique voice.
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Publishers Weekly
... magnificent and harrowing.
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Kirkus
... engrossing.