Queer Tales is our brand-new Young Adult book club, in collaboration with BookWrym! Join us at our Durham Pop-up for cake, coffee and some delightfully queer books.
The books featured are curated with by BookWrym and will focus on queer and minoritized identities. This is an inclusive event suitable for young adult readers of all identities and abilities, though we always recommend checking content warnings before booking.
The book club will take place on the ground floor and is wheelchair accessible, however toilets are on the upper floor only.
The event is free to attend, however book your space online or in-person at Two Tales to guarentee a spot.
October’s Book of the Month:
‘Hell Followed With Us’ by Andrew Joseph White
Description:
A brilliantly inclusive LGBTQ+ dystopia, Hell Followed With Us revolves around sixteen-year-old trans boy on the run from the ruthless sect that infected him with a bioweapon capable of turning him into a world-shattering monster.
Prepare to die. His kingdom is near.
Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.
But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all.
Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick’s terms…until he discovers the ALC’s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own.
Representation:
Transgender MCs & SCs, Neurodivergent MCs & SCs, Autistic MC, Gay MC & SCs, Bisexual MCs & SCs, Unlabeled Queer MCs & SCs, Muslim SCs, Black SCs
Content Warnings:
Body horror, gore, transphobia, domestic abuse, religious abuse, self-injury, attempted suicide, birthnaming, death, death of a parent, dysmorphia, emesis, genocide, gun violence, misgendering, sexual manipulation, violence, viral illness.
Date:
Sunday 28 September – Sunday 28 December
Place:
Two Tales, Durham
Time:
15:00
Admission:
Free