KEN SCHNECK, PhD, is the author of “ Seriously…What Am I Doing Here? The Adventures of a Wondering and Wandering Gay Jew” and the former producer/host of This Show Is So Gay, the long-running, award-winning radio show/podcast. She has had essays published in Polychrome Ink, Hippocampus Magazine, Crab Fat Magazine, Luna Luna, Huffington Post, ROAR, and The Feminist Wire.
In 2016 Lara won Slippery Elm Literary Journal’s Prose Contest, and The American Literary Review’s Contest in Nonfiction.
She is a graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College’s MFA program in Creative Nonfiction. Surprisingly, she did not amass a lifetime supply of frequent flier miles from the experience. She grew up flying between her two moms in Rochester, New York, and her father in Anchorage, Alaska. LARA LILLIBRIDGE sings off-beat and dances off-key whenever her children give her the opportunity. Raised to be a free spirit by norm-defying parents, Girl has to define her own boundaries as she tries to fit into heteronormative suburban life, all while navigating her mother’s expectations, her stepmother’s mental illness, and her father’s serial divorces. Girl and her brother travel four thousand miles-unaccompanied-to visit their father in rural Alaska, where they sleep in a locked cabin without running water, telephone, or electricity. She swims naked with her lesbian mother and stepmother in upstate New York. In the early years, Girl’s feminist mother reluctantly allows her to play with her favorite Barbies while her stepmother refuses to comfort her when she wakes up from nightmares.
Personally less concerned with her mother’s sexuality and more with how she fits into a world both disturbed and obsessed with it, Girl finds that, in other people’s eyes, “The most interesting thing about me is not about me at all it is about my parents.”
Told from the perspective of “Girl,” Lillibridge’s memoir is the no-holds-barred account of childhood in an unconventional household. Lara Lillibridge grew up with two moms-an experience that shaped and scarred her at the same time. Joining her are authors Ken Schneck and Bernard E. We’re excited to host the book release event for Lara Lillibridge’s Girlish: Growing up in a Lesbian Home.
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