AWW21 Tribes and Tribulations: Growing up Gay - Shannon Molloy and Ronnie Scott

In his harrowing memoir, Fourteen: My Year of Darkness, and the
light that followed, Shannon Molloy details the violence and fear
he perpetually suffered growing up as an effeminate boy deep in
regional Queensland. Ronnie Scott’s debut novel, The Adversary,
is a sly, dry account of the inner-city world of endless student
summers, cheap wine and Grindr; the like of which a young Shannon
could only dream. How individuals cope and grow, and how this is
reflected in worlds changing around them, is explored in these
very different but equally engaging accounts of gay life in
Australia.


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