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QueerKPL Book Club

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Categories: Adults
April 26, 2023 @ 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Available at: Central Library

Join us in-person for a great discussion on a work of queer literature. New members are always welcome!  

We will be discussing The Family Outing by Jessi Hempel. This title is also available as an e-book and an e-audiobook on Download Library/Libby. You can request a copy of the book by emailing Kim Cluthe at kim.cluthe@kpl.org.  

Jessi Hempel was raised in a seemingly picture-perfect, middle-class American family. But the truth was far from perfect. Her father was constantly away from home, traveling for work, while her stay-at-home mother became increasingly lonely and erratic. Growing up, Jessi and her two siblings struggled to make sense of their family, their world, their changing bodies, and the emotional turmoil each was experiencing. And each, in their own way, was hiding their true self from the world. 

By the time Jessi reached adulthood, everyone in her family had come out: Jessi as gay, her sister as bisexual, her father as gay, her brother as transgender, and her mother as a survivor of a traumatic experience with an alleged serial killer. Yet coming out was just the beginning, starting a chain reaction of other personal revelations and reckonings that caused each of them to question their place in the world in new and ultimately liberating ways. 

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Event Details

Kim Cluthe
Central Library Meeting Room A 85 Queen St. N. Kitchener View Map