What We Pick Up by Stacy Brewster
What We Pick Up by Stacy Brewster transcends the gay coming-of-age narrative, exploring what queer lives look and sound like in the decades following those chapters. Highlighting the tendernesses and traumas that span entire lifetimes, set in diverse landscapes and time periods, and told with dark humor, and cinematic detail, these stories paint a range of queer experience that confronts the shortcomings of American masculinity in all its forms.
These stories are full of characters wholly on the page and unabashedly queer, characters who fight through toxic masculinity to find love, to heal, and ultimately, to live. This collection shows us what families can look like, both chosen and blood. I did not want What We Pick Up to end.”
—Emme Lund, author of The Boy with a Bird in His Chest
