New York: Feminist Press / Amethyst Editions, (2017). First edition - The author's first novel - a "raw, funny, and uninhibited stumble down memory lane" as DeShawn returns from San Francisco to his Alabama hometown for his uncle's funeral. A book with a "fearless (sometimes reckless) humor as Purnell interrogates what it means to be black, male, queer; a son, an uncle, a lover; Southern, punk, and human. An emotional tightrope walk of a book and an important American story rarely, if ever, told. (author Michelle Tea) 148 pp.