“When I tell this story as a joke, I am its punchline. Leaning in close, I might start with this bit: The night before my first husband got outed to me, I was in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood dressed up as Liza Minnelli for Halloween.” — Preface, Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage
“A memoir as sharp as it is tender.”
-Ryan Berg, Author of No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions
“In vital, kinetic prose, Beard maps the fault lines between love, desire, and performance…A bracing, fresh testament to becoming, no matter who we are.”
-Paul Lisicky, Author of Song so Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell
“Beard announces the arrival of a powerful voice in memoir.”
-Charles Jensen, Author of Splice of Life: A Memoir in 13 Film Genres
“Beard is brilliant and bristly and heartbreaking and funny as hell.”
-Harrison Scott Key, Author of How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Every Told
“Beard is a tremendous achievement and also just tremendous writing. I will be recommending it to everyone I know.”
-Chris Stedman, author and host/creator of Unread podcast
“Timely and timeless. A true feat of storytelling and personal revelation.”
-Nick White, Author of Sweet & Low
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