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Author Event: Brent Love, Leap
July 9, 2024 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Event Timing: July 9, 2024 @ 6:00 PM
Hosted at Reverie Books
5330 Menchaca Rd, Austin TX 78745
Join us for an in-store reading and signing with Brent Love, author of Leap, a gay memoir set in Armenia, with themes of queer love, human wonder and the search for belonging. The event will be on Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 6:00 pm. Since this event is located in store, there are limited spaces available!
In a small Texas town, Brent comes out to his parents, and on that night his place in the world cracks wide open. Unmoored from his family but unwilling to give up on his dream, Brent enters the Peace Corps with the incredible task of navigating an unfamiliar land, a new language, and a new identity as a gay man in post-Soviet Armenia.
As he grapples with a religious past and a queer future, Brent finds himself immersed in a culture he’d never imagined. Brent moves in with Armenian families, celebrates his first Nor Tari, hunts mushrooms in the mountain mists, and dances in Yerevan at his first gay bar, all while hoping for and trying to find romance, even love. When his Peace Corps commitment takes an unexpected turn, Brent must decide what matters to him most and where he thinks he belongs.