Inside and Out

Young Love, First Heartbreak, and Living with HIV

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Tuesday, 4:00 pm EDT June 23, 2020

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This program is part of our Inside and Out Pride 2020 series, which offers solace and affirmation to the LGBTQ+ community during a time of isolation from trusted social groups and support networks. 

Journalist Tim Murphy will interview Lucas Rocha on his engrossing debut novel Where We Go From Here, a moving and honest portrayal of three gay young adults in Brazil whose lives become intertwined in the face of HIV.

“…this treatise on community provides comfort in an often homophobic world, with strong-willed drag queens; drunken, ecstatic nights; and blossoming lovers. Simply fearless.” —Kirkus Reviews

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Featuring

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    Lucas Rocha

    Lucas Rocha

    Lucas Rocha is a librarian living in São Paulo, Brazil. He received his MS in information science from Fluminense Federal University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Where We Go From Here is his first novel.

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    Tim Murphy

    Tim Murphy

    Tim Murphy is the author of the novels Christodora (2016), which was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Award, and Correspondents (2019), which was named an Amazon Best Book of June 2019 and was blurbed by Khaled Hosseini. He is a longtime freelance journalist, mostly on HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ issues but also on activism, social justice and healthcare, for places including POZ magazine, TheBody.com, New York magazine, Details, the Nation, the New York Times and Impact, the national magazine of the ACLU. He is originally from Massachusetts and has lived in New York City for nearly 30 years.

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    Where We Go From Here

    By Lucas Rocha

    Published by Scholastic Inc.

    PURCHASE

    Ian thinks his life is about to turn upside when he tests positive for HIV, and that is when he meets Victor, who has just tested negative. Victor is only at the clinic that day because of Henrique, who did not disclose his HIV status until after they had sex. Though Victor feels betrayed, he offers to put a fragile Ian in touch with Henrique, hoping that perhaps Henrique can help Ian navigate his new life. In the process, the lives of Ian, Victor, and Henrique will become intertwined in a story of friendship, love, and stigma—a story about hitting what you think is rock bottom, but finding the courage and support to keep moving forward. Set in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, this utterly engrossing debut by Brazilian author Lucas Rocha calls back to Alex Sanchez’s Rainbow Boys series, bringing attention to how far we’ve come with HIV, while shining a harsh light on just how far we have yet to go.

About this series

Inside and Out

Inside and Out is a new series from The Center for Fiction to run this Pride Month 2020! The series offers solace and affirmation to the LGBTQ+ community during a time of isolation from trusted social groups and support networks. Featuring a phenomenal line-up of authors whose books center the unique experiences of queer characters, conversations will explore how sexuality and gender identity intersect with race, class, religion, and nationality.

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