Thirteen Acceptance Speeches (for awards he never won)

<p>He wrote thirteen acceptance speeches for awards he never received.<br>Not for lack of talent but for an excess of invisibility.<br>This book isn't about triumph. It's about what remains when triumph never comes.</p><p>A man a boy a misfit born in shit-literally and symbolically-who finds in words his only way to exist.</p><p>Each speech is a shattered mirror: of a misread childhood unrecognized art and love that arrived too late.<br>And still he speaks.<br>Still he resists.<br>Because some defeats deserve to be told more than any victory.</p><p>A fierce moving and brilliant novel about those who live outside the spotlight who carry the weight of clarity and who-despite everything-keep writing as if someone were listening.</p>