“When I tell this story as a joke, I am its punchline. Leaning in close, I might start with this bit: The night before my first husband got outed to me, I was in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood dressed up as Liza Minnelli for Halloween.” — Preface, Beard: A Memoir of a Marriage
“A memoir as sharp as it is tender.”
-Ryan Berg, Author of No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions
“Beard is brilliant and bristly and heartbreaking and funny as hell.”
-Harrison Scott Key, Author of How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Every Told
“In vital, kinetic prose, Beard maps the fault lines between love, desire, and performance…A bracing, fresh testament to becoming, no matter who we are.”
-Paul Lisicky, Author of Song so Wild and Blue: A Life with the Music of Joni Mitchell
“Beard announces the arrival of a powerful voice in memoir.”
-Charles Jensen, Author of Splice of Life: A Memoir in 13 Film Genres
“Beard is a tremendous achievement and also just tremendous writing. I will be recommending it to everyone I know.”
-Chris Stedman, author and host/creator of Unread podcast
“An incisive, beautiful meditation on intimacy and identity, Beard reminds us: not all beards are false, and not all truths are spoken.”
—Juliet Patterson, Author of Sinkhole
“Out of the heartbreak of shame and fear, Lundquist crafts truly beautiful and searching family portraits.”
—Lia Purpura, Author of All the Fierce Tethers
“Timely and timeless. A true feat of storytelling and personal revelation.”
-Nick White, Author of Sweet & Low
“A keenly observed personal history. . . . Lundquist beautifully renders her fragile first marriage and all its earnest striving with honesty and grace.”
—Michael Kleber-Diggs, author of Worldly Things
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