“Animal You’ll Surely Become” Book Launch

WHEN:  Saturday, October 20th from 6:00pm – 7:30pm
WHERE:  2918 Leander Street, Pittsburgh PA
COST:  FREE

In a time of #metoo movements and exhausting Brett Kavanaugh hearings, Brittany Hailer boldly debuts her published memoir: a work of poetry and nonfiction, exploring a broken family system, addiction, and sexual trauma.

Join Brittany as she launches “Animal You’ll Surely Become” with an evening of performers, tarot readings by Aurora the Witch and a celebration of her success: vulnerability as a radical act of courage.

From the Event page:

“Animal You’ll Surely Become is a blue collar fairy tale. A work of poetry and nonfiction, Animal explores a broken family system, addiction, and sexual trauma. This book with glimmer into existence October 9, 2018.

Come celebrate Brittany Hailer’s debut memoir/hybrid Animal You’ll Surely Become. The reading and event will be at the lovely residence of Molly and Paul Marks.

Readers/Performers Include:
Molly Marks
Jeffrey Bolden
Sarah Shotland
Sheila Squillante

Aurora the Witch will have a special tarot nook set up in the back yard!

Monique Combs is cooking 🙂

Books will be for sale as well, but you can pre-order a copy from Tolsunbooks.com. You can buy my book at the launch or online

Reviews:

‘Animal You’ll Surely Become is an honest, intimate, and unwaveringly compassionate look at our human vulnerability, especially the young, the disenfranchised, the addicted, and the innocent. These fierce essays sting, then sing. Brittany Hailer is a writer to watch, that’s for sure.’ – Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic & Desire

‘Animal You’ll Surely Become is a courageous and confident debut that juggles sorrow and fear, rage and love, hurt and triumph, all while balanced on an umbilical highwire tethered between memory and the moon. After reading this book, you will never see cherry blossoms or a tortoise shell or a collarbone or a wine bottle or a pile of clothes in the same way again. Angela Carter, Kate Bernheimer, and Lidia Yuknavitch fans, you heard it here first: Brittany Hailer is a writer to watch.’ —Molly Gaudry, author of We Take Me Apart and Desire: A Haunting

‘Animal You’ll Surely Become is a brutal and lyric shape-shifter of a book. It reinvents itself with each chapter, always turning on the reader. This book is an animal who is smart and soft, intuitive and vicious. It is a hybrid-myth of a beast with three faces pointing backwards, forwards, and most importantly: straight ahead, daring its reader, its prey, to blink. Hailer debuts with a lush and dirty book that is as adventurous as it is ambitious, and as I read it, I couldn’t look away.’ -Sarah Shotland, Author of Junkette

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