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L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir

by Annie Rachele Lanzillotto

Excelsior Eds. 2013. 335p. illus. ISBN 9781438445250. $24.95.

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Lanzillotto, a poet, songwriter, and performer, traces her Italian family back to its immigrant roots. She also describes her youth (in the 1970s Bronx, NY) with an abusive, mentally ill father. She escapes to Brown University, survives cancer, comes out, and meets every challenge with aplomb in this rollicking, hopeful memoir.

Reviewed by Lisa N. Johnston , Mar 01, 2014

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