Purnell’s new memoir turns heaviness into humour, and exposes the bleakness under what seems silly and light
H Felix Chau Bradley
H Felix Chau Bradley is a writer and editor living in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). They are the author of Personal Attention Roleplay (Metonymy Press, 2021) and Automatic Object Lessons (House House Press, 2020). They are an editor for This Magazine and Le Sigh, and host of the Strange Futures book club for Librairie Drawn & Quarterly.
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Myriam Gurba’s penetrating insights into the inexorable fog of trauma and abuse
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