Book Launch Celebration for Rowan Perez/Body’s A Bad Monster – Somerville, MA

Don’t miss this upcoming 2024 Local Event in Somerville, MA. Happening on Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at Narrative. Doors open at 7:00 PM.

Join us in celebration of local author Rowan Perez & the launch of her debut novel Body’s A Bad Monster

Body’s a Bad Monster is a non-linear queer autofiction that transcends genre, mixing prose and poetry to create two distinctive narrators. In rejecting traditional storytelling, it allows the book to mirror the feeling of disassociation, a critical aspect of the piece. It is at once true and fictional, which gives the book a sense of immediacy and vulnerability – almost as if we are reading a diary. Rather than placing focus on the pain of survival, Perez uses erasure text to intentionally refuse to engage with male voices and violence. Instead, Body’s a Bad Monster highlights the life that survival permits, one of personhood and acceptance. An experimental, tender, and darkly funny piece of hybrid fiction, the book explores the hard-won humor and joy that it takes to survive through mental illness, trauma, and, ultimately, recovery in the world today, and will appeal to fans of Maggie Nelson, Jenny Offill, Carmen Maria Machado, and Mona Awad. Perez workshopped parts of Body’s a Bad Monster under Mona Awad and the initial opening to it was the recipient of the 2021 Harvey Swados Award for Fiction.

Rowan Perez is local to New England and is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst MFA program for Poets and Writers (2021). Her work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Rising Phoenix Review, Buzzfeed, and human magazine. You can find more of her writing on Tumblr and IG at @rid.inkskinned.

Ticket price is redeemable for in-store purchase- excludes fees, not applicable towards purchase of a giftcard, must be redeemed within one purchase (any remainder will not be redeemable). Tickets are non-refundable.

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Event ID - 1022016427647

Event Venue - Narrative

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Date And Time

Wednesday, September 25th, 2024 @ 07:00 PM

Venue

Narrative

Location

387 Highland Avenue, Somerville, MA 02144

Event Types

Performing & Visual Arts