The Lonely Veteran's Guide to Companionship
$54.12
- Paperback
184 pages
- Release Date
7 April 2025
Summary
Finding My Tribe: A Queer Veteran’s Search for Connection
In this collection of interrelated essays, Bronson Lemer explores companionship through the lens of a queer veteran, focusing on the difficulty of forming true connections with others, including a “battle buddy” during basic training, the people he meets while teaching in China, and the spirit of a long-dead older sister.
Lemer uses lessons from popular culture and literature—the globe-trotting exploits of fictional c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780299350741 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0299350746 |
| Series: | Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies |
| Author: | Bronson Lemer |
| Publisher: | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Imprint: | University of Wisconsin Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 7 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 454g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
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“Bronson Lemer doesn’t just ‘write’ essays, he excavates them—digging deep within himself and the wider world to bring readers toward greater truths.” - B.J. Hollars, author of Year of Plenty: A Family’s Season of Grief
About The Author
Bronson Lemer
Bronson Lemer is the author of The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq. His work has appeared in Guernica, Creative Nonfiction, the Southeast Review, Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers, and other publications. A McKnight Writing Fellow, he lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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