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001			on1263340309
003			OCoLC
005			20220825101218.0
008			220119t20222022nyu e 000 1 eng
010			_a 2021055569
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dOCLCO _dIK2 _dJCX _dRNL _dGL4 _dIUK _dNFG
020			_a9781250833525 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1250833523 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1263340309
042			_apcc
092			_aNEWSON, _bRASHEED
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aNewson, Rasheed, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMy government means to kill me / _cRasheed Newson.
250			_aFirst edition.
263			_a2208
264		1	_aNew York : _bFlatiron Books, _c2022
264		4	_c©2022.
300			_a276 pages ; _c25 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_a"A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story, following the personal and political awakening of a young gay Black man in 1980s NYC, from the television drama writer and producer of The Chi, Narcos, and Bel-Air Born into a wealthy Black Indianapolis family, Earl 'Trey' Singleton III leaves his overbearing parents and their expectations behind by running away to New York City with only a few dollars in his pocket. In the City, Trey meets up with a cast of characters that change his life forever--from civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, who he meets in a Harlem bathhouse, to his landlord, Fred Trump, who he clashes with and outfoxes. He volunteers at a renegade home hospice for AIDS patients, and after being put to the test by gay rights activist Larry Kramer and civil rights leader Dorothy Cotton, becomes a founding member of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Along the way Trey attempts to navigate past traumas and searches for ways to maintain familial relationships--all while seeking the meaning of life in the midst of so much death. Vibrant, humorous, and fraught with entanglements, Rasheed Newson's My Government Means to Kill Me is an exhilarating, fast-paced, coming-of-age story that lends itself to a larger discussion about what it means for a young, gay, Black man in the mid-1980s to come to terms with his role in the midst of a political and social reckoning"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aAfrican American gay men _vFiction.
650		0	_aAIDS activists _zNew York (State) _zNew York _vFiction.
650		0	_aAIDS (Disease) _vFiction. _9198981
650		0	_aGay activists _vFiction.
650		0	_aNineteen eighties _vFiction. _9110093
651		0	_aNew York (N.Y.) _vFiction. _93341
655		7	_aGay fiction. _2lcgft _9193612
655		7	_aBildungsromans. _2lcgft _921488
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _9683
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _92408
655		0	_aLGBTQ+.
994			_aC0 _bNFG
999			_c351704 _d351704