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Rasheed Newson has written an unforgettable, take-no-prisoners novel alive with humor and full of urgency. Newson’s Trey and his determination to live life on his own terms, even in the face of death all around him, brings into three dimension an era of New York Queer life that, too often, has been flattened and whitewashed by history.”.
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Aug 20, 2022 · The book jacket of Rasheed Newson’s extraordinary debut, “My Government Means to Kill Me,” features the title in big, pink, all-caps type, followed by the words “A NOVEL” in the same ...
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Aug 23, 2022 · My Government Means to Kill Me isn’t just a page-turning Bildungsroman about a queer Black teenager. It’s also a correction to the historical narrative around AIDS. In the opening pages of Rasheed Newson’s debut novel, 17-year-old Trey arrives in New York City from Indianapolis in 1985, having turned his back on his family’s trust fund.
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Aug 23, 2022 · By Rasheed Newson Flatiron: 288 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org , whose fees support independent bookstores.
Aug 23, 2022 · 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.
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Over the course of roughly two years, Rasheed wrote the novel My Government Means to Kill Me. It was a passion project that he wasn’t sure would attract a publisher. However, his literary agent, Jim McCarthy of Dystel, Goderich & Bourret, saw potential in the manuscript. So did his literary editor, Nadxieli Nieto of Flatiron Books.
