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WINNER OF THE 2023 ALA STONEWALL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION • AS HEARD ON NPR’s LATINO USA
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Praise for Faltas
“One of the best memoirs I've ever read.”
—Autostraddle
“Uses humor and vivid storytelling to talk not only about abuse and trauma, but also joy and survival. ”
—NPR
“I don’t know if I’ve ever read anything so emotionally honest and morally rigorous. She manages radical empathy without compromising her own emotional integrity … It’s funny and clear and vivid and painful and also so complex … We need this book, I kept thinking as I read. Fuck all the college reading lists for Ethics 101. Just assign Faltas. It’s funnier than Kant, and more realistic.”
—them
“Blunt, no-punch-pulling … Gentili is able to reframe those experiences — as well as her formative clashes with colorism and transphobia — as communal projects rather than isolated incidents, the burden from which only she would otherwise bear.”
—Vulture
“Hilarious and juicy, full of campy humor, fun gossip, sly jokes, and excellent fashion advice. It’s the kind of book that’s hard to imagine until you’re reading it: it doesn’t seem possible, and then it is.”
—Book Riot
“Strikes a rare balance: at once agonizing and hilarious, angry and forgiving, beautiful and unbearable. In other words, it is an almost perfect reflection of the fullness of a life marked by triumph … I was reminded not so much of the other queer memoirs I’ve read, but of Michel de Montaigne, the 16th-century nobleman and philosopher at the heart of the French Renaissance.”
—Hugh Ryan, Los Angeles Review of Books
“Raw, incandescent … groundbreaking … powerfully and necessary … Faltas is not a redemptive book or a story of victoriously emerging from a traumatic past, but that’s not its aim. It is [written] by a woman determined to tell the truth and resolve unfinished business.”
—Chicago Review of Books
“In some ways I may never finish processing this book … Gentili's treatment of the trauma central to Faltas is unparalleled; nothing feels sensationalized but nothing is shied away from. A phenomenal, important book.”
—Gus Thompson, The Ivy Bookshop (Baltimore, MD)
“A little earthquake of a book … powerfully glides through abuse, sex work, forgiveness, friendship and class mobility … with a storied career and life, characteristic humour and an eye for a witty barb, Gentili has crafted a warm, thoughtful, piercing book.”
—Xtra
“A fresh take on a stale genre … [Faltas is] packed with life … a remarkable book.”
—Lambda Literary Review
“A revelation … emotionally and ethically complex … a story of learning to work with what little power one has … an outstanding quality of Faltas is that it avoids melodrama and moralizing. What it depicts is not a fallen world but the ordinary state of things.”
—McKenzie Wark, Liber
“A uniquely intimate and powerful story of reclaiming and rebuilding from childhood trauma. This will be a tough read for many people, but Gentili rewards readers with a perspective on becoming your true self that is valuable for any identity.”
—Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA)
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publication Date: October 4, 2022
ISBN: 978-1-7367168-2-3
Page Count: 208
Dimensions: 5” x 7”
