Please join us as we celebrate the launch of our ninth title, Crybaby: Infertility, Illness, and Other Things That Were Not the End of the World by Cheryl E. Klein, a “propulsive memoir” (FOREWORD REVIEWS) whose “raw emotionality lands like a gut-punch" (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY).
We'll be kicking off Cheryl’s book tour tonight at Skylight Books in Los Angeles. If you're in the area, please stop by and get a book signed! Event starts at 7:30 p.m.
Crybaby is Brown Paper Press’ second LGBTQ+ memoir and the first that delves into all the messy emotions that arise when life — and one’s body — do not behave according to plan. There is a beautiful openness about Cheryl’s writing. She holds nothing back, letting her every decision fall under a microscope of her own making — something only gifted memoirists do well. And she is certainly that.
But don’t take our word for it.
Nefertiti Austin, the author of Motherhood So White: A Memoir of Race, Gender, and Parenting in America, calls Crybaby a “visceral rollercoaster of love." “Cheryl E. Klein surfaces with insights bright and beautiful as sea glass," says Shira Spector, author of Red Rock Baby Candy. And Michelle Tea, who just released a wonderful book called Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of (In)Fertility, says she found herself “rooting wildly for Klein."... [Keep reading]
