Giovanni's Room Event: A Reading with Kate Bornstein

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Time: Saturday, October 17, 2009 5:30 p.m.
Location: Giovanni's Room, Philadelphia
Title of Event: A Reading with Kate Bornstein

Kate Bornstein is the author of many books including, most recently, Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws (Seven Stories, $16.95 pb).

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Hir earlier books are the ones who made hir famous: Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us (Random House, $14.95 pb) & My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely (Routledge, $29.95 pb).

The store will have at the reading a few copies of hir early novel Nearly Roadkill, which is long out of print.

Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it.

In Hello Cruel World, Kate bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival for navigating an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, "Hello, Cruel World" is a much-needed unconventional approach to teenage suicide prevention for marginalized youth who want to stay on the edge, but alive.

"Hello, Cruel World "features a catalog of 101 Alternatives to Suicide that range from the playful (Moisturize), to the irreverent (Disbelieve the Binary), to the highly controversial (Get Laid. Please). Designed to encourage readers to give themselves permission to unleash their hearts' harmless desires, the book has only one directive: "Don't be mean." It is this guiding principle that brings its reader on a self-validating journey, which forges wholly new paths toward a resounding decision to choose life.

Tenderly intimate and unapologetically edgy, Kate is the radical role model, the affectionate best friend, and the guiding mentor all in one kind and spirited package.