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DESCRIPTION:Join Sin Soracco, author of Low Bite and Edge City, and Patrick Marks, 
 publisher of Ithuriel’s Spear for a reading from the now completed final 
 noirish novel that F.S. (Francesca) Rosa was working on before her untimely 
 death in 2016.\n\nIt’s 1972 — and three Vietnam army veterans, two of 
 them drag queens, and their boss at a social services agency are 
 (reluctantly) employed to track down run-aways who have fled to San 
 Francisco for shelter from their repressive hometowns. One Fresno escapee, 
 on the verge of his majority, has lied about his age and landed a job at 
 the fabulous Finocchio’s Club, where female impersonators ply their 
 trade. A make-up case is stolen, the body count starts to mount, and love 
 blossoms in this noirish tale of finding one’s place in the 
 world.\n\n"Why do I love this book? Perhaps because this sassy story 
 unfolds in 1972, exactly when I arrived in San Francisco trying to figure 
 out my gay identity. Its fascinating cast of characters, its fresh take on 
 the fast-paced detective novel, and of course its all-important focus on 
 fashion, set against San Francisco’s colorful seventies LGBTQIA (long 
 before that acronym existed!) underworld make this a page-turner." — Jim 
 Van Buskirk, co-author of Gay by the Bay: A History of Queer Culture in the 
 San Francisco Bay Area\n\n" Post Traumatic Dress Disorder got San Francisco 
 right. I would know. I was there."\n— Richard “Scott” Lyons, who 
 performed at San Francisco’s legendary drag institution Finocchio’s 
 under the name Beverly Plaza.\n\n" I loved Francesca’s book, and not only 
 her book, but the work of those who succeeded her in writing it!" — Kevin 
 Killian, poet, editor, and author of Fascination and Impossible Princess\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/10/29/18870328.php
SUMMARY:Post Traumatic Dress Disorder - Launch of Long-Awaited Noir Drag Novel by F. S. Rosa!
LOCATION:Fabulosa Books\n489 Castro Street, San Francisco 94114
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/10/29/18870328.php
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