QBC September Meeting: Pretend You're Dead And I Carry You

Join us for a discussion of Julián Delgado Lopera's novel Pretend You're Dead and I Carry You with Brazos Bookstore!
We hope that you will support our community partner, Brazos Bookstore, by purchasing your book in store, on their website, or on bookshop.org by choosing Brazos Bookstore as your preferred bookstore! Purchases of the book club selection in person will also have a 15% discount applied!
Bookclub is Free but space is limited so make sure to rsvp here if you're planning to attend!

Here's a bit more about the novel -

From the award-winning author of Fiebre Tropical, an electric, highly anticipated novel set in Colombia’s underground queer scene.
Isolated in a dreary Bogotá apartment, Ignacio’s light has dimmed, leaving his teenage daughter Valentina to raise herself in the wake of her mother’s death. Valentina longs to discover the details of her mother’s drowning and for Ignacio to snap out of his depression—his listless afternoons spent smoking cigarettes in long blonde wigs, telenovelas humming in the background, haunted by memories of the young man he loved and betrayed.
From Ignacio’s dark past emerges the luminous Mamadora Eléctrica, the wise travesti who introduced Ignacio to the city’s queer scene years prior. Stepping into a maternal role for Valentina, Mamadora fears the that Ignacio’s self-loathing may have unleashed a curse on them all. A profound and irreverent story about coming undone, Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You affirms Julián Delgado Lopera as a brilliant and singular voice—“a writer who is grinding their own colors” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times).