Max Bidasha Reading from his Novella Gramacita

Join us in the NVUU sanctuary for October’s Death Positive Book Reading Event with local Napan Max Bidasha.

ABOUT MAX: Max Bidasha is a Two-Spirit, Indigenous, Mexican, Punjabi playwright, poet, and activist. He began writing while undergoing intensive chemotherapy for stage IV cancer after being told he had one year to live. His plays include STAGES, Missing Red Girls and The Kids Are NOT Alright. Earlier this year, Max shared poems from his debut collection The Pros and Cons of Dying (available now), first at January's in-person Death Positive Event at NVUU and again at the February DP Event on Zoom. Gramacita, his first creative nonfiction novella, was recently released. Max lives in Napa with his boyfriend Armando and their cheerful dog, Momo.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Gramacita is the colorful, complex matriarch of Max’s family, and together she and her grandson Max share an unbreakable bond. But her strict Catholic upbringing and deep-rooted homophobia have kept Max from revealing the truth of his own sexuality. He fears Gramacita might leave this world before he finds the courage to speak his truth or worse, that she might completely and utterly reject him.

When Max accepts his best friend’s invitation to a Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration, he begins to make peace with the possibility of losing Gramcita, the woman he loved most in the world. But will she abandon him even after her death, or might she have embraced him all along?

Open to all & admission is FREE! Donations in any amount are deeply appreciated and help support Death Positive Event Series (DPES) programming. ❤️

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