One Headlight: An Alaskan Memoir

**A Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Read**Like no other book I have read. It will entertain you as it crushes you. - Martha Amore Editor of Lambda Literary Nominated Building Fires in the SnowFrank and insightful...An affecting and surprising remembrance about the responsibilities of parents and children. - Kirkus ReviewsQuirky humor bright language and sharp emotional insight. - Joe Okonkwo author of Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction winner Jazz MoonFROM THE PUBLISHER: The debut memoir from Matt Caprioli a young collegeLecturer in New York City will inspire and thrill you even as itvoyages beautifully through lifes harshest truths.ONE HEADLIGHT: AN ALASKAN MEMOIR (CirquePress; August 6 2021; paperback) is the story of a devoted singlemother raising her would-be pastor son around Lazy Mountain Alaska in a church-donated Mustang with no snow tires amissing passenger window and one headlight.Capriolis tales of religious extremism sex work and classconflict have been published in numerous literary journals including Epiphany Opossum and Best Gay Stories. In 2021 his story on moving to Manhattan was featured inepisode four of the Netflix series Worn Stories produced byEmmy-winner Jenji Kohan and Oscar-winner Morgan Neville and written by New York Times style writer Emily Spivack.Whatever your background ONE HEADLIGHT is adeeply human book that will move readers for its insightful honest and poetic depictions of class race sexuality family love and memory. ONE HEADLIGHT will especially resonatewith those who have lost a loved one to cancer who areinterested in the craft of memoir coming-of-age stories parent-childrelationships Alaskan cultures or LGBTQ+ literature.BIO: MATT CAPRIOLI is a queer Alaskan/NYC creative writer and Lecturer in the English Department of Lehman College City University of New York. His essays and fiction have appeared in Epiphany Breadcrumbs Opossum Literary Best Gay Stories 2017 and Newtown Literary. As a journalist he was a regular contributor to Anchorage Press and The Red Hook Star-Revue. He holds an MFA from Hunter College and studied at Columbia University and The University of Alaska Anchorage. He lives in Astoria Queens with his partner.