Cheryl Fair presents TALK TEENY
About this Event
Registration for this event is not required; however, in the case of a full event, your registration will reserve your seat.
Join us on Thursday, July 23, in Remington to celebrate the release of Baltimore author Cheryl Fair's novel, Talk Teeny! Cheryl will be in conversation with fellow Baltimore writer and intermedia artist Rahne Alexander.
About Talk Teeny:
Set between 1953 and 1968, Talk Teeny is a novel in linked vignettes that traces a childhood shaped by perception, instability, and constraint. Claire, born to intelligent but unreliable parents, reads by the age of three and enters adult spaces early, expecting language to function as a form of access. It does not.
In Virginia, she performs for coins in bars, a brief and instructive exchange that establishes the terms of her world. As the family moves through the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, Claire encounters the structures that define her position-school, class, gender, and the limits imposed by poverty. These pressures accumulate quietly, becoming visible through everyday encounters and small acts of exclusion.
Abuse, family instability, and shifting loyalties shape Claire's understanding of trust and authority, yet the novel refuses melodrama. Her older brother appears intermittently, a stabilizing yet unreliable presence, while other family figures offer partial guidance.
Through it all, Claire discovers music, literature, and the emerging countercultures of the era-small openings into larger possibilities. Told through precise, understated scenes that accumulate into a life, Talk Teeny traces the objects, rituals, and fleeting moments that shape identity.
Talk Teeny will be available for purchase at the event.
Cheryl Fair is a Baltimore-based artist and writer working in photography, film, and painting. She is the author of the nonfiction book Joe Quigley, Alaska Pioneer (McFarland). Talk Teeny is her first novel, published by Entity, an imprint of Apathy Press Poets.
Rahne Alexander is an intermedia artist and writer from Baltimore. She was probably out as trans before you were.
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