You Tell the Stories You Need to Believe

<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>