Release Party: Gramacita by Max Bidasha

Join us for a special event with Max Bidasha, author of Gramacita. This event is free, but we appreciate your RSVP below so we can plan for your attendance.

This book will encourage you to get in touch with your roots to help you heal after loss.

Gramcita, the colorful, complex matriarch of the family and her grandson (Max) have an unbreakable bond. Unfortunately, because of Gramacita’s strict, Catholic upbringing, her homophobia has kept Mac from telling her the truth of his own sexuality. He fears that Gramacita might leave this world before he can conjure enough courage to speak his truth, or worse, being completely and utterly rejected by her. After Max accepts his best friend’s invitation to a Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration, he begins to make peace with losing Gramacita, the woman he loved most in the world, but will she abandon him, even after her death or would she have embraced him all along? 

Max Bidasha is a Two-Spirit, Indigenous, Mexican, Punjabi, playwright, poet, and activist. His plays focus on social justice issues and cultural nuances. He began writing while undergoing intense chemotherapy to treat stage IV cancer after being told he had one year to live. His plays include, STAGES, Missing Red Girls, The Kids are NOT Alright, and Gramacita. His first collection of poetry, The Pros and Cons of Dying, is out now. Gramacita, the novella, is his first creative non-fiction project. He lives with his boyfriend Armando and his happy dog, Momo in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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