Book Queeries: A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings + AUTHOR VISIT! In-Person
Register below to attend this book club and receive a FREE copy of the book while supplies last. For this meetup, we'll discuss A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings: a graphic memoir with an author visit from Will Betke-Brunswick!
Explore LGBTQIA+ representation in books! Teens across the gender and sexuality spectrum are welcome to attend and engage in fun dialogue and activities, snacks provided. For teens / grades 6-12. Meets at Out Boulder County on the second Wednesday of the month at 6:30 p.m.
Generously sponsored by the Boulder Library Foundation.
- Date:
- Wednesday, Jul 12 2023
- Time:
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm
- Location:
- *Off-Site, *Off-Site
- Audience:
- Teen
- Categories:
- Author Talks Discussion Groups Social Connections
During Will Betke-Brunswick's sophomore year of college, their beloved mother, Elizabeth, is diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. They only have ten more months together, which Will documents in evocative two-color illustrations. But as we follow Will and their mom through chemo and hospital visits, their time together is buoyed by laughter, jigsaw puzzles, modern art, and vegan BLTs. In a delightful twist, Will portrays their family as penguins, and their friends are cast as a menagerie of birds. In between therapy and bedside chats, they navigate uniquely human challenges, as Will prepares for math exams, comes out as genderqueer, and negotiates familial tension. A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings is an act of loving others and loving oneself, offering a story of coming-of-age, illness, death, and life that announces the arrival of a talented storyteller in Will Betke-Brunswick. At its heart, Will's story is a celebration of a mother-child relationship filled with unconditional devotion, humor, care, and openness.