E-grāmata: Sticker

Hoke (The Groundhog Forever) offers up an evocative reflection on queerness, race, and his hometown of Charlottesville, Va., in this conceptual 'memoir in 20 stickers.' . Part of Bloomsburys Object Lessons series, his book uses the humble sticker as a metaphorical linchpin for a series of essays that [ offer] a unique perspective on one of the most infamous cities in recent American history. * Publishers Weekly * Were not entirely objective here, but were quite fond of the Object Lessons series and Henry Hokes contribution might boast the most striking cover design the series has had to date. Hokes book uses stickers to chronicle everything from queer identity to the recent history of Charlottesville, Virginia all of which should make this a book that sticks with you long after youve read it. (Pun intended, oh yes.) * Volume 1 Brooklyn * Hokes keenly constructed memoir-in-essays is really a memoir-in-stickers, from the glow-in-the-dark stars and coveted Lisa Frank unicorns of childhood to a Pixies decal from his teenage years. The book also peels back the complicated notoriety of the authors hometown, Charlottesville, Virginia, juxtaposing Dave Matthews fire dancer emblem against a truck emblazoned with the words Are You Triggered? on its back window heralding the infamous white supremacist march. * Electric Lit * Sticker is a trove of Millennial nostalgia. Its uniqueness lies not only in Hokes unabashed storytelling but also in its critical analysis of American current events and its brutal honesty about a city rooted in racism. In Sticker, Hokes Charlottesville morphs into a scrapbook, one where Hoke places many of the literal and metaphorical stickers significant to his past and his identity, one in which America memorializes some of its questionable, inhumane history and many of its darkest days. Possessing the evocative power of Melissa Falivenos Tomboyland, Hokes writing is blunt and honest, and Sticker is a collection worth keeping. -- Nicole Yurcaba * Southern Review of Books * Funny, nostalgic, and weird in the best possible way, Henry Hoke's Sticker weaves evocative personal moments with hometown lore and racial reckoning, all while making you want to dig up your old-school sticker collectionthe puffy, the glowy, especially the scratch and sniff. * Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, author of My Monticello * Henry Hoke examines gender, sexuality, music, and the depths of humanity with exuberant whimsy and charm. Sticker pulses with ghost stories, lamplit streets and pine, boyhood, blood. Startlingly original and gorgeously rendered, I will never forget this book. * T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls *