Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It (Violet Hour Book Club)

Name: Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It (Violet Hour Book Club)
Start: 2025-05-10T15:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-10T16:30:00-04:00
Location: 6450 Avenue Christophe-Colomb, Montréal, QC H2S 2G7, Canada

Schedule

Sat May 10 2025 at 03:00 pm to 04:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

6450 Avenue Christophe-Colomb, Montréal, QC H2S 2G7, Canada | Montreal, QC

Join us for the next meeting of the Violet Hour Book Club, a reading group devoted to classic and contemporary works of LGBTQ literature. The book we will be discussing is Leg: The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It (2023) by Greg Marshall.
Toustes sont invités·es au Violet Hour Book Club, et chacun.e est bienvenu.e à partager ses pensées sur le livre en anglais ou en français.
We will be meeting at our new venue, the Espace des Possibles Petite-Patrie (6450 Avenue Christophe Colomb, Beaubien Metro).
L’Espace des Possibles a comme mission d’offrir un lieu d’entraide, d’apprentissages et d’implication dédié à la transition sociale et écologique (la transition socio-écologique). The space is wheelchair accessible.
The space is given to us for free, but VHBC participants are welcome to make voluntary contributions to help support our mandate to create LGBTQ literary events for Montrealers.
A reminder: All VHBC titles are available at Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore (2220, McGill College Ave) and Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe (3952 Wellington St.) at 10% off.
ABOUT THE BOOK ///
A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets—as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy
Greg Marshall’s early years were pretty bizarre. Rewind the VHS tapes (this is the nineties) and you’ll see a lopsided teenager limping across a high school stage, or in a wheelchair after leg surgeries, pondering why he’s crushing on half of the Utah Jazz. Add to this home video footage a mom clacking away at her newspaper column between chemos, a dad with ALS, and a cast of foulmouthed siblings. Fast forward the tape and you’ll find Marshall happily settled into his life as a gay man only to discover he’s been living in another closet his whole life: he has cerebral palsy. Here, in the hot mess of it all, lies Greg Marshall’s wellspring of wit and wisdom.
Leg is an extraordinarily funny and insightful memoir from a daring new voice. Packed with outrageous stories of a singular childhood, it is also a unique examination of what it means to transform when there are parts of yourself you can’t change, a moving portrait of a family in crisis, and a tale of resilience of spirit. In Marshall’s deft hands, we see a story both personal and universal—of being young and wanting the world, even when the world doesn’t feel like yours to want.