<p class="ql-align-center"><strong style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Truly a Book For All Seasons</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">In her new nonfiction work </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">You Tell the Stories You Need To Believe</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">, queer novelist Rebecca Brown turns her attention to life's biggest questions: time, love, and how we endure. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">Since 1984, and most known for a novel written and set during the AIDS crisis (</span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">The Gifts of the Body</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">), Rebecca Brown has been on the forefront of the avant-garde of American letters. </span></p><p><br></p><p><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)"> is an exploration of the meaning of life-as told through the cycles of the year, and the art that has been produced about each of the seasons. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 1)">As Brown fans know, her distinctive sentences are reason enough to read her. One of the gifts of this book is getting to read about the artists who inspire her-from Melville to Denise Levertov, from Stravinsky to the Monkees. Not to mention the cunning and imaginative ways mythology and religion enter the mix. </span></p>
